Blood stage malaria vaccine eliciting high antigen-specific antibody concentrations confers no protection to young children in Western Kenya.

Blood stage malaria vaccine eliciting high antigen-specific antibody concentrations confers no protection to young children in Western Kenya.

The antigen, falciparum malaria protein 1 (FMP1), represents the 42-kDa C-terminal fragment of merozoite surface protein-1 (MSP-1) of the 3D7 clone of P. falciparum. Formulated with AS02 (a proprietary Adjuvant System), it constitutes the FMP1/AS02 candidate malaria vaccine. We evaluated this vaccin...

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Main Authors: Bernhards R Ogutu, Odika J Apollo, Denise McKinney, Willis Okoth, Joram Siangla, Filip Dubovsky, Kathryn Tucker, John N Waitumbi, Carter Diggs, Janet Wittes, Elissa Malkin, Amanda Leach, Lorraine A Soisson, Jessica B Milman, Lucas Otieno, Carolyn A Holland, Mark Polhemus, Shon A Remich, Christian F Ockenhouse, Joe Cohen, W Ripley Ballou, Samuel K Martin, Evelina Angov, V Ann Stewart, Jeffrey A Lyon, D Gray Heppner, Mark R Withers, MSP-1 Malaria Vaccine Working Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2650803?pdf=render

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