Towards designing a synthetic antituberculosis vaccine : The Rv3587c peptide inhibits mycobacterial entry to host cells

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is considered one of the most successful pathogens in the history of mankind, having caused 1.7 million deaths in 2016. The amount of resistant and extensively resistant strains has increased; BCG has been the only vaccine to be produced in more than 100 years though it is...