The fight against TB - heartbreak and hope

Vaccines are key to defeating infectious diseases, but their early trials are never easy. Professor McShane discusses setbacks in testing the first of a new generation of vaccines against tuberculosis, a disease that kills more than a million people a year, and discusses what the next ten years might bring.

The Lancet article on the study can be found here:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)60177-4/abstract

Early paper on safety and immune response:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3044835/

WHO factsheet on the current state of vaccine development:
http://www.who.int/vaccine_research/QandA_TB_vaccines_MVA85A_feb13.pdf

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