A new vaccine for tuberculosis in rhesus macaques

Nature Medicine 24, 124 (2018). doi:10.1038/nm.4488 Authors: Stephen M Carpenter & Samuel M Behar In a recent study using cytomegalovirus (CMV)-vectored vaccines in rhesus macaques, prevention of tuberculosis in over 40% of vaccinated animals is shown and is attributed to reprogrammed innate immunity and CMV's maintenance of vaccine-elicited effector memory T cells.
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