Table 1.
Overview of tuberculosis vaccines in clinical trial
Vaccine name | Target indication | Antigen name or Rv number | Antigen function | Delivery system | Descriptive notes | Phase | Reference(s) |
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MTBVAC | Preventive | NA | NA | Live mycobacteria | Attenuated MTB with two gene deletions | I | Arbues et al. 2013 |
VPM 1002 | Preventive | NA | NA | Live rBCG strain expressing listeriolysin, urease-deleted | Improved antigenicity due to perforation of phagosome membrane | IIa | Grode et al. 2005, 2013 |
Ad5 Ag85A | Preventive | Ag85A | Mycolyltransferase | Adenovirus 5 vector | Replication-deficient viral delivery system | I | Smaill et al. 2013 |
Ad35/MVA85A | Preventive | Ag85A, Ag85B | Mycolyltransferase | Adenovirus 35 and modified vaccinia Ankara vector | Prime boost combination of two viral delivery systems | I | Radosevic et al. 2007; Abel et al. 2010 |
TB10.4 | Virulence factor | ||||||
Ad35/AERAS-402 | Preventive | Ag85A, Ag85B | Mycolyltransferase | Adenovirus 35 vector + modified vaccinia Ankara virus | Replication-deficient viral delivery system | IIa | Radosevic et al. 2007; Abel et al. 2010 |
TB10.4 | Virulence factor | ||||||
H4/IC31 | Preventive | Ag85B | Mycolyltransferase | IC31 | Formulation of cationic peptide and a synthetic TLR-9 agonist | IIa | Dietrich et al. 2005; Aagaard et al. 2009; Billeskov et al. 2012 |
TB10.4 | Virulence factor | ||||||
MVA85A | Preventive | Ag85A | Mycolyltransferase | Modified vaccinia Ankara | Replication-deficient viral delivery system | IIb | McShane et al. 2004; Beveridge et al. 2007; Verreck et al. 2009; Tameris et al. 2013; White et al. 2013 |
M72 | Preventive; postexposure | Rv1196Rv0125 | PPE family proteinPeptidase | AS01E | Liposomes incorporating the TLR-4 agonist MPL | IIa | Reed et al. 2009; Day et al. 2013; Leroux-Roels et al. 2013 |
ID93 | Preventive/Postexposure/Therapeutic | Rv2608 | PPE family protein | GLA-SE | Synthetic TLR-4 agonist in oil-in-water emulsion | I | Bertholet et al. 2010; Coler et al. 2013 |
Rv3619, Rv3620 | Virulence factor | ||||||
Rv1813 | Latency-associated protein | ||||||
H1/H56/IC31 | Preventive/Postexposure/Therapeutic | Ag85B | Mycolyltransferase | IC31 | Formulation of cationic peptide and a synthetic TLR-9 agonist | IIa | Weinrich Olsen et al. 2001; van Dissel et al. 2010; Aagaard et al. 2011 |
ESAT-6 | Virulence factor | ||||||
Rv2660c | Latency-associated protein | ||||||
RUTI | Therapeutic | N/A | N/A | Whole fragmented Mtb | I | Cardona 2006 | |
Mycobacterium vaccae | Therapeutic | N/A | N/A | Whole killed mycobacteria | III | deBruyn and Garner 2010; von Reyn et al. 2010; Yang et al. 2011 | |
Mycobacterium indicus pranii | Therapeutic | N/A | N/A | Whole killed mycobacteria | III | Gupta et al. 2012a |
NA, not applicable.