Tuberculosis vaccine research in China
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
BCG vaccine and pulmonary tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most important public health problems in the world and has been declared as a global emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1993. Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is one of the first developed vaccines to prevent TB. Unfortunately, BCG vaccine has had a limited duration of protection and has shown controversial and variable levels of efficacy, especial...
متن کاملVaccine research and development: tuberculosis as a global health threat
One of the aims of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is to reduce the number of cases of tuberculosis (TB) infection by the year 2015. However, 9 million new cases were reported in 2013, with an estimated 480,000 new cases of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) globally. Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is the most available and currently used candidate ...
متن کاملpolitical economy of china in central asia
this research is about the political economy of china in central asia. in this research the political & economic interactions affected on chinas political economy in central asia are examined. chinas goal of presence in central asia including political-security, economic and energy goals is described in one part. in another part, the trade relations between china and central asian countries ar...
15 صفحه اولTuberculosis in China
In China, tuberculosis is the main cause of death among the infectious disease among adults. Approximately 1.4 million people contract active tuberculosis each year and in 1990 alone about 360,000 persons died from this disease in China. Globally TB is positioned third as the major cause of disability and death among adults of between 15 years and 59 years, almost 33% of the population of the w...
متن کاملAdjuvants in tuberculosis vaccine development.
Tuberculosis remains a major public health problem around the world. Because the Mycobacterium bovis Bacilli-Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine fails to protect adults from pulmonary tuberculosis, there is an urgent need for improved vaccine formulations. Unlike BCG, recombinant vaccines purified from bacterial expression vectors, as well as naked DNA, require an additional adjuvant. Recent improvem...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Emerging Microbes & Infections
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2222-1751
DOI: 10.1038/emi.2012.3