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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Main Authors: Michael Theisen, Matthijs M. Jore, Robert Sauerwein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-04-01
Series:Expert Review of Vaccines
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14760584.2017.1276833