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Malaria Vaccines
Research from University of Oxford has provided new data on malaria vaccines
March 18th, 2009
According to recent research from Oxford, the United Kingdom, "The WHO Initiative for Vaccine Research and Global Malaria Programme convened a joint scientific forum in June 2008 to discuss scientific, regulatory and public health perspectives on the measurement of efficacy in malaria vaccine field efficacy trials. Participants included clinical trialists, statisticians and epidemiologists from both developed and developing countries, vaccine researchers and developers from academia and industry, and representatives of regulatory agencies." "The efficacy of a vaccine against a disease is a summary indication of the extent to which those vaccinated are protected....
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-03-18)
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