Pre-clinical assessment of novel multivalent MSP3 malaria vaccine constructs.

BACKGROUND: MSP3 has been shown to induce protection against malaria in African children. The characterization of a family of Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein 3 (MSP3) antigens sharing a similar structural organization, simultaneously expressed on the merozoite surface and targeted by...

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Main Authors: Gilles Bang, Eric Prieur, Christian Roussilhon, Pierre Druilhe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3228738?pdf=render