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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: leanne marsay
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-42090 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) 20130531 5
Development of an improved vaccine against tuberculosis (TB) is hindered by the lack of a surrogate of protection. Efficacy of new TB vaccines in humans can only be evaluated by expensive and time consuming efficacy trials within TB endemic areas. It is critical that vaccines with the greatest potential to protect are selected for these trials. Mycobacterial growth inhibition assays (MGIAs) have been developed with the hope that these in-vitro functional assays will correlate with protection, wh ...[more]