The airborne disease Tuberculosis is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, but despite 20 years of intense global efforts, no effective vaccine has been developed, TB is an infectious, airborne disease mainly affecting the lungs and is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). It kills more people than any other infection, with an estimated 1.7 million people worldwide dying from it every year, researchers said.
One of the top ten causes of death worldwide, tuberculosis clocks up approximately 2.8 million cases and nearly half a million deaths on an annual basis in India. In their quest to develop an effective vaccine against the disease, scientists have now taken an important step forward to eradicate this disease from the world.Recent efforts have focused on the response of conventional human T cells – a type of white blood cell essential to fighting off…
