Development of live recombinant vaccine candidates against tuberculosis

Scand J Infect Dis. 2001;33(10):723-4. doi: 10.1080/003655401317074473.

Abstract

We report on 2 recombinant (r) live vaccine candidates that use different strategies to improve cell-mediated immunity for TB control: (i) the current TB vaccine strain Mycobacterium bovis BCG, endowed with a pore-forming cytolysin; and (ii) rSalmonella typhimurium secreting a single immunodominant antigen shared by BCG and M. tuberculosis.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • BCG Vaccine / immunology*
  • Humans
  • Immunity, Cellular
  • Mice
  • Mycobacterium bovis / immunology
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / immunology
  • Salmonella typhimurium / immunology
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / immunology*
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / prevention & control
  • Vaccines, Attenuated / immunology
  • Vaccines, Synthetic / immunology

Substances

  • BCG Vaccine
  • Vaccines, Attenuated
  • Vaccines, Synthetic