News tagged with tb vaccine
Vaccine targeting latent TB enters clinical testing
Statens Serum Institut and Aeras today announce the initiation of the first Phase I clinical trial of a new candidate TB vaccine designed to protect people latently infected with TB from developing active TB disease. The ...
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Dec 01, 2011 |
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New tuberculosis research movement needed
In this week's PLoS Medicine, Christian Lienhardt from the WHO in Geneva, Switzerland and colleagues announce that the Stop TB Partnership and the WHO Stop TB Department have launched the TB Research Movement.
Nov 30, 2011 |
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Decrease in observed rate of TB at a time of economic recession
The incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in the U.S. is reported as being on the decrease, however untreated infected people act as a reservoir for disease. Any pool of the world's population harboring this disease gives cause ...
Nov 07, 2011 |
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Latest discovery in the fight against tuberculosis announced
New research from the Trudeau Institute may help in the ongoing fight against tuberculosis. Dr. Andrea Cooper's lab has discovered a connection between the development of new lymphoid tissue within the lung and protection ...
Oct 18, 2011 |
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2020 vision of vaccines for malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS
Collectively, malaria, TB & HIV/AIDS cause more than five million deaths per year – nearly the entire population of the state of Washington – and represent one of the world's major public health challenges as we ...
May 25, 2011 |
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2,784 vaccinations later
The two thousand, seven hundred and eighty-fourth baby has been vaccinated today in South Africa as part of a clinical trial of a new vaccine against tuberculosis. The new TB vaccine is the most advanced in ...
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Apr 29, 2011 |
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Scientists find candidate for new TB vaccine
Scientists have discovered a protein secreted by tuberculosis (TB) bacteria that could be a promising new vaccine candidate, they report today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The protein could also be use ...
Mar 18, 2011 |
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New TB vaccine enters clinical testing
At an international gathering of TB vaccine researchers in Tallinn today, the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation announced it will initiate a clinical trial of an investigational live recombinant tuberculosis vaccine to be ...
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Sep 23, 2010 |
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Aeras and Crucell announce Phase II clinical trial start in Kenya
Dutch biopharmaceutical company Crucell N.V. and the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation today announced the start of a Phase II clinical trial in infants of the jointly developed tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate, AERAS-402/Crucell ...
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Sep 22, 2010 |
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New TB booster shows promise
A booster shot appears to improve tuberculosis (TB) resistance in previously vaccinated adults, according to new research in South Africa.
Mar 16, 2010 |
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New vaccine effective in preventing TB in African patients with HIV infection
Investigators from Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) have reported results of a clinical trial showing that a new vaccine against tuberculosis, Mycobacterium vaccae (MV), is effective in preventing tuberculosis in people with ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jan 29, 2010 |
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Animal TB 'tracker' to speed drug and vaccine studies
Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a novel way to monitor in real time the behavior of the TB bacterium in mouse lungs noninvasively pinpointing the exact location of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The ...
Jul 22, 2009 |
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WHO paper: TB vaccine could kill babies with HIV
(AP) -- The World Health Organization says a study has shown that babies with HIV could die if given a standard tuberculosis vaccine.
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Jul 01, 2009 |
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TB vaccine gets its groove back
A team of Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators has cracked one of clinical medicine's enduring mysteries - what happened to the tuberculosis vaccine. The once-effective vaccine no longer prevents the bacterial ...
May 19, 2009 |
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TB vaccine enters new clinical trials
(PhysOrg.com) -- The world’s leading candidate for a tuberculosis vaccine, developed at the University of Oxford, is to enter Phase IIb proof-of-concept clinical trials, making it the first TB candidate vaccine ...
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Apr 23, 2009 |
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