Malaria
Researchers from National Institutes of Health report details of new studies and findings in the area of malaria
Published in Vaccine Weekly, April 29th, 2009
"Despite the central role of memory B cells (MBC) in protective immune responses, little is understood about how they are acquired in naive individuals in response to Ag exposure, and how this process is influenced by concurrent activation of the innate immune system's TLR. In this longitudinal study of malaria-naive individuals, we examined the MBC response to two candidate malaria vaccines administered with or without CpG, a TLR9 ligand," investigators in the United States report.
"We show that the acquisition of MBC is a dynamic process in which the vaccine-specific MBC pool rapidly expands and then contracts, and that CpG enhances the kinetics, magnitude, and...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-04-29)
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