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The BCG World Atlas a world first in the fight against tuberculosis

A team of researchers is launching the BCG World Atlas: a first-of-its-kind, searchable website that provides detailed information on TB vaccination policies and practices for more than 180 countries.The BCG vaccination can cause false positives in the skin test that's routinely used to screen for latent TB. "As a clinician, if you're trying to interpret the skin test in a foreign-born person, you're going to want to know when the BCG vaccination was given back home and how many times it has been given," the Atlas' project leader said.

Published
22 March 2011
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
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New TB vaccine enters clinical testing

Aeras announced it will initiate a Phase I clinical trial of an investigational live recombinant tuberculosis vaccine at Saint Louis University. The new vaccine, called AERAS-422, is a modernized version of the currently used TB vaccine - Bacille Calmette Guerin, which is widely viewed as insufficient in preventing pulmonary TB.

Published
23 September 2010
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
TB vaccine
Tackling TB to reach MDG targets: The promise of new vaccines

Policymakers and opinion leaders must recognize TB as a growing global threat and marshal significantly greater resources to support vaccine research and the ambitious plan to save millions of lives with them.

Published
21 September 2010
From
Science Speaks
TB vaccine
Elderly might not benefit from TB vaccines in development

Elderly people might not benefit from some of the tuberculosis vaccines currently in development, recent research suggests.

Published
20 September 2010
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
Tuberculosis and HIV
Therapeutic TB vaccine could reduce latent TB treatment to one month

A vaccine, designed to be used alongside isoniazid preventive therapy to shorten the course of drug treatment in people with latent TB, will shortly undergo

Published
06 May 2010
By
Keith Alcorn
Tuberculosis and HIV
Trial of TB vaccine candidate begins in people with HIV

Crucell and the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation today announced the start of a Phase II clinical trial of the jointly developed tuberculosis (TB) vaccine

Published
14 April 2010
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Press Release
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