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Building a better tuberculosis vaccine

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Restoration of genes lost during the original attenuation of the commonly used BCG tuberculosis vaccine enhances the ability of a recombinant strain to protect against Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

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Figure 1: RD1: on the cusp of virulence and protective immunity.

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