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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Ahsan MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4530405 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Therapeutic advances in vaccines 20150501 3
Tuberculosis (Tb) continues to be a dreadful infection worldwide with nearly 1.5 million deaths in 2013. Furthermore multi/extensively drug-resistant Tb (MDR/XDR-Tb) worsens the condition. Recently approved anti-Tb drugs (bedaquiline and delamanid) have the potential to induce arrhythmia and are recommended in patients with MDR-Tb when other alternatives fail. The goal of elimination of Tb by 2050 will not be achieved without an effective new vaccine. The recent advancement in the development of ...[more]