Where are the RNA vaccines for TB?

Xiao-Yong Fan; Douglas Bruce Lowrie

doi:10.1080/22221751.2021.1935328

Emerging Microbes and Infections (Jan 2021)

Where are the RNA vaccines for TB?

Xiao-Yong Fan,
Douglas Bruce Lowrie

Affiliations

Xiao-Yong Fan: TB Center, Shanghai Emerging and Re-emerging Institute, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center and Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of MOE/MOH, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
Douglas Bruce Lowrie: TB Center, Shanghai Emerging and Re-emerging Institute, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center and Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of MOE/MOH, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2021.1935328
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1217 – 1218

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A simple mRNA vaccine was shown to protect mice against tuberculosis more than 15 years ago. Like COVID-19, tuberculosis is a respiratory infection killing over a million people per year. It too presents a global emergency. Can the stunning success of RNA vaccination against COVID-19 be replicated for TB?

Published in Emerging Microbes and Infections

ISSN: 2222-1751 (Online)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Infectious and parasitic diseases; Science: Microbiology
Website: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/temi

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