On the impact of Masking and Blocking Hypotheses for measuring efficacy of new tuberculosis vaccines

Sergio Arregui, Joaquín Sanz, Dessislava Marinova +2

Over the past 60 years, the Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) has been used worldwide to prevent tuberculosis (TB). However, BCG has shown a very variable efficacy…