抗体作为对Mycobacterium tuberculosis的保护的关键媒介

Qixin Wang1, Deepika Nag2, Susan L Baldwin2

  • 1Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States.

Frontiers in immunology
|September 17, 2024
PubMed
概括

抗体通过预防Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) 感染和帮助诊断,在对抗结核病 (TB) 方面发挥着至关重要的作用. 了解BCG疫苗接种后的抗体反应,为结核病预防和治疗提供了新的策略.

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