Strain-specific Plasmodium falciparum growth inhibition among Malian children immunized with a blood-stage malaria vaccine.

The blood-stage malaria vaccine FMP2.1/AS02A, comprised of recombinant Plasmodium falciparum apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA1) and the adjuvant system AS02A, had strain-specific efficacy against clinical malaria caused by P. falciparum with the vaccine strain 3D7 AMA1 sequence. To evaluate a potentia...

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Main Authors: Matthew B Laurens, Bourema Kouriba, Elke Bergmann-Leitner, Evelina Angov, Drissa Coulibaly, Issa Diarra, Modibo Daou, Amadou Niangaly, William C Blackwelder, Yukun Wu, Joe Cohen, W Ripley Ballou, Johan Vekemans, David E Lanar, Sheetij Dutta, Carter Diggs, Lorraine Soisson, D Gray Heppner, Ogobara K Doumbo, Christopher V Plowe, Mahamadou A Thera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5345808?pdf=render