Malaria Vaccine
Malaria prime boost vaccines reviewed
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, June 20th, 2004
"Plasmodium falciparum kills 1-3 million people each year, most of them are children in sub-Saharan Africa. Immunization with a specific sequence of different vaccine carriers (prime boost) is particularly effective in conferring sterile protective immunity against the pre-erythrocytic stage in animal models of malaria. Here, we review the immunogenicity and protective efficacy data from the first human trial of a prime-boost vaccine against pre-erythrocytic malaria," scientists writing in the journal Trends in Parasitology report.
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