Malaria Vaccine
Protective human immunity is a vaccine discovery tool for falciparum malaria
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, November 15th, 2005
According to a study from the United States, "Plasmodium falciparum malaria remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries, and malaria-associated severe anemia is the major factor driving the high transfusion requirements in pediatric populations living in endemic areas.
"In this report, we identify and evaluate the targets of naturally acquired protective antibody responses in a cohort of n=143 male volunteers residing in a P. falciparum holoendemic area of western Kenya."
The authors wrote, "Volunteers were...
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