Antibody-Mediated Protection against <italic toggle="yes">Plasmodium</italic> Sporozoites Begins at the Dermal Inoculation Site

Antibody-Mediated Protection against <italic toggle="yes">Plasmodium</italic> Sporozoites Begins at the Dermal Inoculation Site

ABSTRACT Plasmodium sporozoites are injected into the skin as mosquitoes probe for blood. From here, they migrate through the dermis to find blood vessels which they enter in order to be rapidly carried to the liver, where they invade hepatocytes and develop into the next life cycle stage, the exoer...

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Main Authors: Yevel Flores-Garcia, Gibran Nasir, Christine S. Hopp, Christian Munoz, Amanda E. Balaban, Fidel Zavala, Photini Sinnis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018-12-01
Series:mBio
Subjects:
antibodies
malaria
preerythrocytic
skin
sporozoites
vaccine
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.02194-18

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https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.02194-18

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