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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2014
Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, DK;
Jes Dietrich, Copenhagen, DK;
Peter Andersen, Brønshøj, DK;
Carina Vingsbo Lundberg, Höllviken, SE;
Truc Thi Kim Than Hoang, Copenhagen, DK;
STATENS SERUM INSTITUT, Copenhagen S, DK;
Abstract
The present invention discloses a vaccine or immunogenic composition that can be administered to latently infected individuals to prevent reactivation of latent tuberculosis infection caused by species of the tuberculosis complex microorganisms (), The invention is based on a number ofderived proteins and protein fragments which are constitutively expressed in different stages of the infection. The invention is directed to the use of these polypeptides, immunologically active fragments thereof and the genes encoding them for immunological compositions such as vaccines.