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Novel tuberculosis vaccine in Germany in clinical phase

EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Wed, 09/10/2008 - 22:00

(Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres) For the first time in more than 80 years a promising live vaccine against tuberculosis has passed into the clinical phase in Germany: Since Monday of this week the new vaccine, which goes by the designation "VPM1002", has begun safety testing on volunteers in a Phase I clinical trial in Neuss, Germany.