Nature Medicine
April 2013, Volume 19 No 4 pp379-505
http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v19/n4/index.html

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Bettering BCG: a tough task for a TB vaccine?
Nature Medicine 19, 410–411 (2013)
doi:10.1038/nm.3153
Published online 04 April 2013
[Authors unlisted on Excerpt page]

Excerpt
Despite the existence of the BCG (Bacille Calmette-Guerin) vaccine, tuberculosis remains a substantial global health problem. One issue with BCG is that although it effectively protects against disseminated tuberculosis in young children, it shows only variable protection against pulmonary tuberculosis. Thus, there is an ongoing quest for new tuberculosis vaccines that…