Plasmodium falciparum apical membrane antigen 1 (PfAMA1) is a leading asexual blood stage vaccine candidate for malaria.
The disease caused by Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) involves different clinical manifestations that, cumulatively, kill hundreds of thousands every year.
These results demonstrate a robust capacity to perform the SMFA in a medium-to-high throughput format, suitable for assessing large numbers of experimental samples of candidate antibodies or drugs.
Roll-out of routine immunization with pre-erythrocytic malaria vaccines can provide substantial burden reduction across a range of transmission conditions typical to many regions in Africa.
Results from this study indicate a need for targeted messages and education on a malaria vaccine, particularly for residents of regions where acceptance is low, older caregivers, and those with low literacy and school-attendance levels.
The development of malaria vaccines is challenging, partly because the immunogenicity of recombinant malaria parasite antigens is low.
Safety, immunogenicity and efficacy of the RTS,S/AS02D vaccine candidate when integrated into a standard EPI schedule for infants have been reported over a nine-month surveillance period. This paper describes results following 20 months of follow up.
In this review, we summarize and discuss a strategy to develop synthetic peptidomimetics of key malaria target antigens for inclusion in a multivalent malaria subunit vaccine based on immunopotentiating reconstituted influenza virosomes.
The ligands that pathogens use to invade their target cells have often proven to be good targets for vaccine development.
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