Progress towards the development of malaria vaccines
| Autor: | Filip Dubovsky, Melinda Moree, Elissa Malkin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Plasmodium biology Malaria vaccine Protozoan Proteins Plasmodium falciparum Antigens Protozoan Public Policy biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Malaria Infectious Diseases parasitic diseases Immunology Communicable Disease Control Malaria Vaccines medicine Animals Humans Parasitology Malaria Falciparum Intensive care medicine Protozoal disease |
| Zdroj: | Trends in parasitology. 22(7) |
| ISSN: | 1471-4922 |
| Popis: | The misery and suffering caused worldwide by infection with the malaria parasite, especially Plasmodium falciparum, has been well documented. Although no licensed vaccine against malaria currently exists, progress has accelerated in recent years towards the goal of developing one. Although the complexity of the malaria parasite has made the malaria vaccine development process tenuous, advances in science and in the vaccine development process as well as increases in funding are encouraging. These advances, coupled with the results of the recent clinical trial of the vaccine candidate RTS,S, have added new vigor to the idea that a malaria vaccine is not only possible but probable. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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