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The value of mucosal immunization against bacterial infections: will we conquer tuberculosis in the near future?

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    Laboratory of Inflammation and Vaccines, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and China-Italy Joint Laboratory for Pharmacobiotechnology for Medical Immunomodulation, Shenzhen 518055, China

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    Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology (SUAT), Shenzhen 518055, China

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    National Research Council, Napoli 80131, Italy

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    Stazione Zoologica Anton Dorhn, Napoli 80121, Italy

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    Laboratorio de Desenvolvimento de Vacinas, Instituto Butantan, Saõ Paulo 05503-900, Brazil

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    State Key Lab of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, CAS, Guangzhou 510530, China

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    Guangzhou National Laboratory, Guangzhou 510530, China

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    University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen 518053, China

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    Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden

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    Fondazione Biotecnopolo Siena, Siena 53100, Italy

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    Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai 200081, China

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    Vaccinology Centre, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK

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    These authors contributed equally

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    The Vaccine Immunology Network is a spontaneous network born in March 2024, aiming to strengthen the factual collaboration between academic research and industry in the vaccine field, which now includes over 100 participants from 9 countries. In addition to the authors, the initial promoters of the Vaccine Immunology Network included Dexiang Chen (MaxVax, Chengdu, China), Anna Du (Gates Foundation, Beijing China), Dongyang Feng (PATH, Beijing, China), Yuanqing Liu (Immorna Biotherapeutics, Hangzhou, China), Guanghui Ma (Institute of Protein Engineering CAS, Beijing, China), Hongbo Shen (Tongjii University, Shanghai, China), Yuelong Shu (Institute of Pathogen Biology, Beijing, China), Bingbing Sun (Dalian University of Technology, China), Bin Wang (Fudan University, Shanghai, China), Chunlin Xin (CanSino, Shanghai, China), Gelin Xu (Wuhan Institute of Biological Products, China), Rong Xu (Delonix Bioworks, Shanghai, China), Yuan Yuan (PATH, Beijing, China), Linqi Zhang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China), Wenshuo Zhou (CNBG-Virogin, Shanghai, China) and Tao Zhu (CanSino, Shanghai, China)

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  • Corresponding author: diana.boraschi@itb.cnr.it 
  • Received Date:  October 05, 2025
    Accepted Date:  December 18, 2025
    Published Online:  December 19, 2025
The Innovation Medicine  4(1),  https://doi.org/10.59717/j.xinn-med.2026.100180  |  Cite this article
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    Boraschi D., Marques-Neto L., Chen L., et al. (2026). The value of mucosal immunization against bacterial infections: will we conquer tuberculosis in the near future? The Innovation Medicine 4:100180. https://doi.org/10.59717/j.xinn-med.2026.100180
    Boraschi D., Marques-Neto L., Chen L., et al. (2026). The value of mucosal immunization against bacterial infections: will we conquer tuberculosis in the near future? The Innovation Medicine 4:100180. https://doi.org/10.59717/j.xinn-med.2026.100180

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