The design of vaccines to induce protective immunity to mycobacteria requires knowledge of both the antigens recognised by T cells and the functional subsets activated. In this article we review the different approaches that have been adopted for the analysis of T cell recognition of mycobacterial antigens. Furthermore, T cell effector functions and their potential role in anti-mycobacterial immunity is discussed.
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Lamb et al. (1988) studied this question.