Qualification of standard membrane-feeding assay with Plasmodium falciparum malaria and potential improvements for future assays.

Vaccines that interrupt malaria transmission are of increasing interest and a robust functional assay to measure this activity would promote their development by providing a biologically relevant means of evaluating potential vaccine candidates. Therefore, we aimed to qualify the standard membrane-f...

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Main Authors: Kazutoyo Miura, Bingbing Deng, Gregory Tullo, Ababacar Diouf, Samuel E Moretz, Emily Locke, Merribeth Morin, Michael P Fay, Carole A Long
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3590281?pdf=render