Towards clinical development of a Pfs48/45-based transmission blocking malaria vaccine
Introduction: Malaria is a devastating vector-borne disease caused by the Plasmodium parasite, resulting in almost 0.5 million casualties per year. The parasite has a complex life-cycle that includes asexual replication in human red blood cells, causing symptomatic malaria, and sexual stages which a...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2017-04-01
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Series: | Expert Review of Vaccines |
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14760584.2017.1276833 |