Tuberculosis bacteria play possum to evade vaccines—mechanisms revealed in study

A vaccine protects more than 100 million infants each year from severe tuberculosis (TB), including the fatal brain swelling it can cause in babies and toddlers. But the vaccine doesn’t prevent adults from developing the more common form of TB that attacks the lungs. This allows TB to persist as the world’s deadliest infectious disease, killing 1.25 million people a year.

This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com

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