Clinical Trial: Using BCG Vaccine to Understand Tuberculosis Infection
Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: RECRUITING
Condition: Tuberculosis
Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
Official Title: A Feasibility Study of Controlled Human Infection With Intradermal Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Injection
Brief Summary:
Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease that usually causes an infection in the lungs.The only vaccine to prevent TB is called BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guérin).BCG contains a live germ similar to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the germ that causes TB.BCG does not work very well, and TB remains the most common cause of death by infection worldwide.Human challenge models involve exposing healthy volunteers to an infectious disease in a safe and controlled way.This helps researchers understand more about an infectious disease and…
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