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Global scientific experts convene in Cape Town to report on progress toward tuberculosis vaccines

At a time of growing global concern about the rising level of drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis in South Africa and worldwide, the world's top TB vaccine experts are meeting this week, the first time this scientific forum has been held in Africa, where they will present new research aimed at advancing development of vaccines against the deadly airborne disease.

Published
25 March 2013
From
Eurekalert Inf Dis
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Injection-free vaccination technique could address global vaccine challenge for diseases such as HIV and malaria

Scientists at King’s College London have demonstrated the ability to deliver a dried live vaccine to the skin without a traditional needle, and shown for the first time that this technique is powerful enough to enable specialised immune cells in the skin to kick-start the immunising properties of the vaccine.

Published
11 February 2013
From
Kings College London press release
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Results of TB vaccine trial give cause for optimism, say researchers

Results of a trial have been praised for “providing hard evidence about protection against tuberculosis in human beings”. The MVA85A vaccine did not confer any additional protection against

Published
04 February 2013
By
Michael Carter
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Data from Historic Phase IIb Clinical Trial for Tuberculosis Vaccine Candidate MVA85A Published in The Lancet

Vaccine candidate did not provide statistically-significant protection in preventing TB disease in infants previously vaccinated with BCG.

Published
04 February 2013
From
Aeras
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TB Vaccine Safe but Does Not Confer Protection, Calls for Redoubling Efforts on Global TB Vaccine Portfolio

The clinical trial of the TB vaccine candidate MVA85A was a Phase IIb safety and efficacy trial in 2,797 infants living in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The candidate was safe and well tolerated in the population tested.

Published
04 February 2013
From
Aeras
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Revived search for a TB vaccine may be about to pay off

After nearly 100 years, researchers could be on the verge of finding a vaccine that would eradicate tuberculosis infections, a scourge that kills 1.4 million people a year.

Published
04 February 2013
From
Reuters
HEALTH: New TB vaccine on the horizon

A research team at Oxford University in the UK is very close to determining the efficacy of their new tuberculosis (TB) vaccine. If current clinical trials are successful, it will be the first new TB vaccine in almost a century.

Published
17 October 2012
From
IRIN Plus News
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HEALTH: New TB vaccine on the horizon

A research team at Oxford University in the UK is very close to determining the efficacy of their new tuberculosis (TB) vaccine. If current clinical trials are successful, it will be the first new TB vaccine in almost a century.

Published
17 October 2012
From
IRIN
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Green light for start clinical trials of innovative and promising tuberculosis vaccine

European scientists are one step closer to delivering a new, safe and more effective vaccine against tuberculosis. Swiss-medic, the Swiss regulatory authority for medicine has given permission to start assessing the new TB vaccine in healthy adult volunteers. The vaccine, called MTBVAC, is the first vaccine of its kind to start clinical evaluation.

Published
17 October 2012
From
TB vaccine Initiative
TB vaccine
Aeras signs agreement with GSK to jointly advance TB vaccine

Aeras announces that it has signed an agreement with GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines, S.A. (GSK) to jointly advance the clinical development of an investigational tuberculosis (TB) vaccine containing GSK's proprietary M72 antigen and AS01E* adjuvant.

Published
10 October 2012
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
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