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Stefan Kaufmann looks to the future of vaccination against tuberculosis. By drawing on past and present vaccination approaches, he proposes that the most successful strategy for preventing tuberculosis in the future will combine different vaccine candidates and use a prime–boost approach.
In this article, the ways in which dendritic-cell nomenclature has evolved are discussed, focusing on the new trend to specifically define a dendritic cell not only by its phenotypic maturation state but also by its function.
