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. 2014 Jun;4(6):a018523. doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a018523

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)
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.