doi:10.1016/j.tube.2015.10.010engAguiló Anento, Juan IgnacioUranga Maíz, SantiagoMarinova , Dessislava VanevaMonzón Garcés, MartaBadiola Díez, Juan JoséMartín Montañés, CarlosMTBVAC vaccine is safe, immunogenic and confers protective efficacy against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in newborn miceART-2016-93398Development of novel more efficient preventive vaccines against tuberculosis (TB) is crucial to achieve TB eradication by 2050, one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for the current century. MTBVAC is the first and only live attenuated vaccine based on a human isolate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis developed as BCG-replacement strategy in newborns that has entered first-in-human adult clinical trials. In this work, we characterize the safety, immunogenicity and protective efficacy of MTBVAC in a model of newborn C57/BL6 mice. Our data clearly indicate that MTBVAC is safe for newborn mice, and does not affect animal growth or organ development. In addition, MTBVAC-vaccinated mice at birth showed enhanced immunogenicity and better protection against M. tuberculosis challenge in comparison with BCG.2016http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/4697310.1016/j.tube.2015.10.010http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/46973oai:zaguan.unizar.es:46973info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/FECYT/INNOCASH-INC-098info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EUR/FP7/NEWTBVAC-241745info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EUR/H2020/TBVAC2020-643381This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No H2020 TBVAC2020 643381info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/BIO2011-23555info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/BIO2014-5258PTUBERCULOSIS 96 (2016), 71-74by-nc-ndhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess