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SUBMITTER: Arora SK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7385400 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Arora Simran Kaur SK Alam Anwar A Naqvi Nilofer N Ahmad Javeed J Sheikh Javaid Ahmad JA Rahman Syed Asad SA Hasnain Seyed Ehtesham SE Ehtesham Nasreen Zafar NZ
Frontiers in immunology 20200721
<i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> (<i>M. tb</i>) persists as latent infection in nearly a quarter of the global population and remains the leading cause of death among infectious diseases. While BCG is the only vaccine for TB, its inability to provide complete protection makes it imperative to engineer BCG such that it expresses immunodominant antigens that can enhance its protective potential. <i>In-silico</i> comparative genomic analysis of Mycobacterium species identified <i>M. tb</i> Rv1507A ...[more]