T-cell vaccine

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T-cell vaccines are designed to induce cellular immunity. They are also referred to as cell-mediated immune (CMI) vaccines.[2]

It is believed that CMI vaccines can be more effective than conventional B-cell vaccines for yielding protection against microbes which tend to hide within the host cell, and rapidly mutating microbes (such as HIV or the influenza virus).Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

T-cell vaccines underwent clinical trials for HIV/AIDS in about 2009.[3]

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However as at December 2020, the Pfizer-BioNTech SARS-CoV-2 vaccine was authorised pursuant to the US FDA's emergency use authorization [5] and became the first FDA authorized T cell vaccine.[6][7]

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