Science Translational Medicine
13 October 2010 vol 2, issue 53
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/current
Research Articles
Vaccines
A Defined Tuberculosis Vaccine Candidate Boosts BCG and Protects Against Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Sylvie Bertholet, Gregory C. Ireton, Diane J. Ordway, Hillarie Plessner Windish, Samuel O. Pine, Maria Kahn, Tony Phan, Ian M. Orme, Thomas S. Vedvick, Susan L. Baldwin, Rhea N. Coler, and Steven G. Reed
13 October 2010: 53ra74
A vaccine with a four-protein fusion peptide from Mycobacterium tuberculosis effectively boosts the current childhood TB vaccine and protects against drug-resistant TB.