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By Jordana Lenon Five years after they reported a new macaque model for studying the pathology of tuberculosis (TB) in people living with HIV, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and University of Wisconsin–Madison report how an alternative route of vaccination with Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) can protect macaques with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection from …
By Jordana Lenon Oct. 11, 2023 By Jordana Lenon Five years after they reported a new macaque model for studying the pathology of tuberculosis in AIDS patients, a team of researchers at the University of Pittsburg, with support from the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center’s Virology and Genetics Services Units, reports a new vaccine that …
University of Pittsburgh and Wisconsin National Primate Research Center writers contributed to this story Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious cause of death worldwide. The bacterial infection killed roughly 1.6 million people in 2017, according to the National Institutes of Health. In the past 200 years, TB claimed the lives of more than 1 billion …