This review will provide an update as to the current advancements in malaria vaccine development, with a focus on the use of adenovirus vectored malaria vaccines.
Using empirical data, we show that these trials, with small numbers of volunteers, are sufficiently powered to detect protective biological effects induced by preerythrocytic and/or blood-stage candidate vaccines if parasitemia is measured daily by quantitative polymerase chain reaction.
This report includes brief summaries of what is known, and major knowledge gaps in disease burden estimation, pathogenesis and immunity, and the challenges with current preventive strategies for malaria in pregnancy.
A quantitative framework is used to explore the potential applications and probable effects of sexual stage or mosquito stage transmission blocking vaccines (TBVs) against malaria.
The outputs of the stochastic individual-based simulations are predictions of the epidemiological impact and comparative cost-effectiveness of conceivable control measures, alone or in combination.
We optimized an antigenic insert comprising the four conserved blocks of MSP-1 fused to tandemly arranged sequences that represent both allelic forms of the dimorphic 42-kDa C-terminal region.
Date: 28-30 September 2010
Venue: Kellogg Conference Hotel Gallaudet University, Washington DC, USA
Although policy issues may be more complex for future vaccines, the lead-time between the date of product regulatory approval and a recommendation for its use in developing countries is decreasing.
In this work, C3d exerted differential effects on humoral immune responses after gene gun immunization of mice with plasmids encoding the malaria blood stage antigen MSP142 depending on the nature of the protein Plasmodium falciparum vs. Plasmodium berghei MSP), the localization of the C3d moiety (C-terminal vs. N-terminal), and the presence of putative N-glycosylation sites.
The objectives of this study were (i) to determine whether MSP142 and AMA1 vaccines formulated with the AS02A Adjuvant System were safe and immunogenic in the rhesus monkey model; (ii) to investigate whether MSP142 or AMA1 induced immune interference to each other, or to RTS,S, when added singly or in combinations at a single injection site; (iii) in the event of immune interference, to determine if this could be reduced when antigens were administered at separate sites.
