Vaccines against tuberculosis: where are we and where do we need to go?

THM Ottenhoff, SHE Kaufmann - PLoS pathogens, 2012 - journals.plos.org
In this review we discuss recent progress in the development, testing, and clinical evaluation
of new vaccines against tuberculosis (TB). Over the last 20 years, tremendous progress has …

Tuberculosis vaccine development: progress in clinical evaluation

SB Sable, JE Posey, TJ Scriba - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading killer among all infectious diseases worldwide despite
extensive use of the Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine. A safer …

Novel vaccination strategies against tuberculosis

P Andersen, SHE Kaufmann - Cold Spring …, 2014 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
The tuberculosis (TB) pandemic continues to rampage despite widespread use of the BCG
(Bacillus Calmette–Guérin) vaccine. Novel vaccination strategies are urgently needed to …

[HTML][HTML] Tuberculosis vaccines–state of the art, and novel approaches to vaccine development

C da Costa, B Walker, A Bonavia - International Journal of Infectious …, 2015 - Elsevier
The quest for a vaccine that could have a major impact in reducing the current global burden
of TB disease in humans continues to be extremely challenging. Significant gaps in our …

An overview of the development of new vaccines for tuberculosis

E Whitlow, AS Mustafa, SNM Hanif - Vaccines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Currently, there is only one licensed vaccine against tuberculosis (TB), the Bacillus Calmette–
Guérin (BCG). Despite its protective efficacy against TB in children, BCG has failed to protect …

[HTML][HTML] Vaccine development against tuberculosis over the last 140 years: Failure as part of success

SHE Kaufmann - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The year 2020 was shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic which killed more people than any
other infectious disease in this particular year. At the same time, the development of highly …

[PDF][PDF] What's new in tuberculosis vaccines?

AM Ginsberg - Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2002 - SciELO Public Health
Over the past 10 years, tuberculosis (TB) vaccine development has resurged as an active
area of investigation. The renewed interest has been stimulated by the recognition that …

Novel tuberculosis vaccines on the horizon

SK Parida, SHE Kaufmann - Current opinion in immunology, 2010 - Elsevier
Eleven new tuberculosis (TB) vaccines are in various phases of clinical trials. These include
subunit vaccines to improve the current vaccine BCG, and recombinant BCG to substitute for …

Moving tuberculosis vaccines from theory to practice

P Andersen, TJ Scriba - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2019 - nature.com
Tuberculosis (TB) vaccine research has reached a unique point in time. Breakthrough
findings in both the basic immunology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and the …

[HTML][HTML] Novel approaches to tuberculosis vaccine development

SHE Kaufmann, J Weiner, CF von Reyn - International Journal of Infectious …, 2017 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis (TB) remains the deadliest infectious disease. The widely used bacille
Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine offers only limited protection against TB. New vaccine …