Malaria Vaccines
"Primary Structure of a Novel Plasmodium vivax Ookinete Surface Protein."
Published in Vaccine Weekly, June 2nd, 1997
According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the Sixth Annual Meeting of the International Centers for Tropical Disease Research, National Institutes of Health, held May 5-7, 1997, in Bethesda, Maryland, "Vaccination of humans to prevent transmission of the malaria parasite to the Anopheles mosquito vector is one of the control strategies currently being developed. Targets of transmission-blocking immunity are proteins expressed by the sexual/sporogonic stages of Plasmodium species and by the mosquito midgut. In the post-fertilization (zygote and ookinete) stages of Plasmodium falciparum, the prime vaccine candidates are Pfs25 and Pfs28, surface antigens of...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (1997-06-02)
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