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Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis ›› 2021, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (6): 625-630.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-6621.2021.06.018

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Research progress of tuberculosis vaccine and vaccination strategy

WANG Yuan-zhi, LIANG Zheng-min, QU Meng-jin, ZHOU Xiang-mei()   

  1. College of Veterinary Medicine, Chinese Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
  • Received:2021-01-26 Online:2021-06-10 Published:2021-06-02
  • Contact: ZHOU Xiang-mei E-mail:zhouxm@cau.edu.cn

Abstract:

BCG vaccine is now the only approved and the most widely used tuberculosis vaccine worldwide. It can effectively prevent the tuberculous meningitis in infant and the disseminated tuberculosis, however, for teenagers and adults, as well as those who have been infected with MTB, the protection effect is poor. Therefore, the main research direction of tuberculosis prevention and control includes to develop new effective vaccines, to increase the immune intensity of vaccine and extend protection time of vaccines. The authors reviewed various tuberculosis vaccine types, inoculation routes and immunization strategies, and summarized the information of improving vaccine efficacy, in order to provide reference for the parallel improvement of pre-clinical and clinical trial protocols.

Key words: BCG vaccine, Vaccines, Vaccination, Review