A live-attenuated tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate in development at Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed) ...

The BCG Vaccine Laboratory (BCGVL), under the Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, is ...

Michigan has the only persisting bovine tuberculosis outbreak in wild deer anywhere in the U.S. — and it occasionally spills ...

Spreading easily through the air, Mycobacterium tuberculosis can establish a chronic infection in human lungs, which can turn ...

Patna: Despite achieving more than 75% immunisation coverage for most vaccines, Bihar continues to struggle with low coverage ...

IAVI and Biofabri are collaborating on the trial, which will recruit around 4,300 patients with latent TB infections across ...

Kenya is among three countries taking part in a major tuberculosis (TB) vaccine trial that will upgrade a vaccine that has been in existence for almost a century.In the country, trials will be ...

According to DOH, the BCG vaccine protects infants against tuberculosis. The letters B, C, and G stand for Bacillus ...

A safe vaccine called BCG, consisting of a weakened strain of the closely related Mycobacterium bovis, has been available for over a century.(AP) Two preclinical research addresses the difficulty ...

Commercial cattle farms in low-incidence bovine tuberculosis (TB) areas of England and Wales are being invited to participate ...

Academic researchers in Massachusetts believe the standard BCG (bacillus Calmette-Guérin) vaccine could have a remarkable second use: a treatment to reverse advanced type 1 diabetes. The cause of ...

The bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine, initially developed to provide protection against TB, also protects against leprosy; and the magnitude of this effect varies. Previous meta-analyses ...