ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Immunological memory formed in response to administration of GamTBvac recombinant tuberculosis vaccine candidate: clinical trials in healthy volunteers

About authors

1 Laboratory of Translational Biomedicine,
N. F. Gamaleya Federal Research Centre for Epidemiology and Microbiology, Moscow, Russia

2 Institute of Molecular Medicine,
I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia

3 Department of Virology, Faculty of Biology,
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow

Correspondence should be addressed: Denis A. Kleymenov
ul. Gamalei, d. 18, Moscow, Russia, 123098; ur.relbmar@tel00001

About paper

Funding: this work was supported by the Russian Ministry of Health and the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations (state task no. 0574-2014-0023)

Contribution of the authors to this work: Kleymenov DA — analysis of literature, research planning, research preparation, data collection, analysis, and interpreatation, drafting of a manuscript, writing of a final version of a manuscript; Mazunina EP — analysis of literature, research planning, research preparation, data collection, analysis, and interpretation, drafting of a manuscript; Lunin VG — analysis of literature, research planning, research preparation, drafting of a manuscript; Koptev EYu, Manuilov VA — analysis of literature, research preparation, drafting of a manuscript; Gushchin VA — analysis of literature, research planning, research preparation, data analysis and interpretation, drafting of a manuscript, writing of a final version of a manuscript; Tkachuk AP — analysis of literature, research planning, research preparation, drafting of a manuscript, critical analysis of a manuscript.

Received: 2017-09-20 Accepted: 2017-10-20 Published online: 2018-01-13
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