Malaria Vaccine
Incidence of severe malaria useful as endpoint for vaccine trials
Published in Vaccine Weekly, November 3rd, 2004
"Potential endpoints for blood stage malaria vaccine efficacy trials include uncomplicated malaria disease, which is hard to differentiate from other febrile illnesses, and mortality, which requires prohibitively large sample sizes. Strictly defined severe malaria predicts malaria-associated mortality where case fatality rates are known. To assess the suitability of severe malaria as a trial endpoint, we conducted a census in 1999 and measured the incidence of severe malaria from 1999 to 2001 in Bandiagara, Mali," scientists in...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2004-11-03)
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