Protection from experimental cerebral malaria with a single dose of radiation-attenuated, blood-stage Plasmodium berghei parasites.

BACKGROUND: Whole malaria parasites are highly effective in inducing immunity against malaria. Due to the limited success of subunit based vaccines in clinical studies, there has been a renewed interest in whole parasite-based malaria vaccines. Apart from attenuated sporozoites, there have also been...

ver descrição completa

Detalhes bibliográficos
Main Authors: Noel J Gerald, Victoria Majam, Babita Mahajan, Yukiko Kozakai, Sanjai Kumar
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Colecção:PLoS ONE
Acesso em linha:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3174172?pdf=render