Le seul vaccin contre la tuberculose, qui existe depuis plus de 100 ans, a été rendu plus efficace grâce à l'édition génomique.
- Head of the Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB Research, University of the Witwatersrand
The only vaccination against TB is more than 100 years old. Gene-editing has made it more effective.
BCG remains the only widely available vaccine for TB. Yet the development of a COVID-19 vaccine over the last year shows that there is capacity to rapidly create new vaccines.
In Southern Africa, high rates of HIV infection have been the primary driver of TB
The current range of TB diagnostic tests have various limitations like the sputum smear which is outdated, clumsy and takes long to process.
Scientists have struggled to diagnose TB in people with compromised immune systems because of the low levels of the bacteria in their body.
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