Tagged: TB vaccine

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3:10 pm
Thu December 6, 2012

SLU Researchers Working Toward Finding New TB Vaccine

Credit (Courtesy: Saint Louis University Medical Center)
Dr. Daniel Hoft working on equipment used for clinical trials
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The World Health Organization has declared tuberculosis a global health emergency.

There is already a TB vaccine given to infants in countries other than the United States  but it was developed more than sixty years ago.  That vaccine protects babies from the worst forms of TB but it does not protect adolescents and adults from a type of tuberculosis which accounts for most cases of the disease.

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