Sentences with phrase «tb vaccine strains»

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Orme and his research team in Fort Collins investigated whether the existing vaccine for TB, which goes by the acronym BCG (bacille Calmette - Guerin), worked equally well against different clinical strains of tuberculosis.

«With more than 1.7 million people dying globally from TB each year and the rise of strains that are resistant to drug treatment, we need a better way to prevent this disease,» said the study's principal investigator Louis Picker, M.D., who is the associate director of the OHSU Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute and a professor of pathology, molecular microbiology, and immunology in the OHSU School of Medicine.

IDRI's current vaccine candidate (a fusion of four recombinant proteins and IDRI's proprietary adjuvant) is effective against MDR TB strains.