Tuberculosis Vaccine Research and Development
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (3 July 2020) | Viewed by 19104
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Interests: antimicrobial resistance; animal-alternative laboratory models of host–pathogen interaction; disease interventions
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Dear Colleagues,
Tuberculosis is one of the biggest threats to the health, welfare, and productivity of humans and animals globally. It causes more human deaths than any other infectious organism. The prevalence of antibiotic resistance among human cases and the cost and logistical challenges associated with controlling the disease in animals make a compelling case for continued efforts to employ a vaccination in combatting the disease.
While a vaccine for tuberculosis in the form of Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) has been around for nearly a century, it is not universally effective in people and is rarely used in animals. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has the ambitious aim of ending the global tuberculosis epidemic by 2030. It is now recognized that this is unlikely unless tuberculosis in animals is also addressed at the same time.
Progress with vaccination against tuberculosis is both difficult and slow and many hurdles remain. These include (1) identifying a more efficacious prophylactic vaccine than BCG alone; (2) a vaccine that can be used post-exposure to contain or remove the latent infection with tuberculosis, thought to exist in a third of the world’s population; and (3) vaccines and associated diagnostic tests for use in animals. A clear roadmap towards identifying, testing, licensing, and deploying such vaccines is required, together with sustained funding at a global level.
This Special Issue will highlight current research activities in the research and development of tuberculosis vaccines. We particularly encourage submissions relating to vaccine formulation (such as DNA, subunit, recombinant, and nano- and micro-particles) and different delivery modalities (such as mucosal, aerosol, transdermal) and the evaluation of their safety and efficacy in animal models and target species.
Prof. Mark Chambers
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Tuberculosis
- Vaccination
- Prophylaxis
- Therapy
- Safety
- Efficacy
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