Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is one of the main causes of death in the world. The attenuated live vaccine produced with the Calmette-Guérin bacillus (BCG) is the only one available against human TB and it is administrated as one dose on birth. However, BCG has low efficiency against pulmonary TB in adolescents and adults, and for this…