Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Newark, New Jersey, United States


Purpose

to validate a rabbit model that mimics the range of human manifestations of pulmonary TB as a platform for evaluating candidate TB vaccines for the ability to induce sterilizing immunity and/or protect against progression to cavitary TB following challenge with diverse Mtb strains.

Division

Global Health

Date

July 2013

Region Served

GLOBAL

Committed amount

$757,376

Grant topic

Tuberculosis

Duration (months)

37

Grantee location

Newark, New Jersey, United States

Related work

Tuberculosis

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