Potential benefits of cattle vaccination as a supplementary control for bovine tuberculosis.

Vaccination for the control of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle is not currently used within any international control program, and is illegal within the EU. Candidate vaccines, based upon Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) all interfere with the action of the tuberculin skin test...

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Main Authors: Andrew J K Conlan, Ellen Brooks Pollock, Trevelyan J McKinley, Andrew P Mitchell, Gareth J Jones, Martin Vordermeier, James L N Wood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-02-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004038&type=printable
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