Protection against Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection Offered by a New Multistage Subunit Vaccine Correlates with Increased Number of IFN-γ⁺IL-2⁺ CD4⁺ and IFN-γ⁺ CD8⁺ T Cells

• Xiaochun Wang,

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Basic Medicine, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China

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• Jingyan Zhang,

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Basic Medicine, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China

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• Jinping Liang,

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Basic Medicine, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China

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• Ying Zhang,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Xindong Teng,

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Basic Medicine, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China

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• Xuefeng Yuan,

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Basic Medicine, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China

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• Xionglin Fan

  * E-mail: xlfan@hust.edu.cn

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Basic Medicine, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China

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