Abstract

At present, the epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) is severe, and the only available vaccine,Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), is not high efficacious.Thus, there is a need for the development of novel TB vaccines which are more safe, effective, practical and inexpensive.This review summarizes the advance in the development of TB vaccines, including recombinant BCG vaccine, live attenuated vaccine, subunit vaccine, DNA vaccine and viral vector vaccine. Key words: Mycobacterium tuberculosis; BCG vaccines; Vaccines, subunit; Vaccines, DNA

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