CD8 T-cell-mediated protection against liver-stage malaria: lessons from a mouse model

N Van Braeckel-Budimir, JT Harty - Frontiers in microbiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Malaria is a major global health problem, with severe mortality in children living in sub-
Saharan Africa, and there is currently no licensed, effective vaccine. However, vaccine …

Memory CD8 T cell responses exceeding a large but definable threshold provide long-term immunity to malaria

NW Schmidt, RL Podyminogin… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Infection of mice with sporozoites of Plasmodium berghei or Plasmodium yoelii has been
used extensively to evaluate liver-stage protection by candidate preerythrocytic malaria …

Memory CD8+ T cell‐mediated protection against liver‐stage malaria

M Hassert, S Arumugam, JT Harty - Immunological reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nearly half of the world's population is at risk of malaria, a disease caused by the protozoan
parasite Plasmodium, which is estimated to cause more than 240,000,000 infections and kill …

You shall not pass: memory CD8 T cells in liver-stage malaria

MN Lefebvre, JT Harty - Trends in parasitology, 2020 - cell.com
Each year over 200 million malaria infections occur, with over 400 000 associated deaths.
Vaccines formed with attenuated whole parasites can induce protective memory CD8 T cell …

Differential effector pathways regulate memory CD8 T cell immunity against Plasmodium berghei versus P. yoelii sporozoites

NS Butler, NW Schmidt, JT Harty - The Journal of Immunology, 2010 - journals.aai.org
Abstract Malaria results in> 1,000,000 deaths per year worldwide. Although no licensed
vaccine exists, much effort is currently focused on subunit vaccines that elicit CD8 T cell …

Prime and target immunization protects against liver-stage malaria in mice

A Gola, D Silman, AA Walters, S Sridhar… - Science translational …, 2018 - science.org
Despite recent advances in treatment and vector control, malaria is still a leading cause of
death, emphasizing the need for an effective vaccine. The malaria life cycle can be …

Short-lived effector CD8 T cells induced by genetically attenuated malaria parasite vaccination express CD11c

LA Cooney, M Gupta, S Thomas… - Infection and …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Vaccination with a single dose of genetically attenuated malaria parasites can induce sterile
protection against sporozoite challenge in the rodent Plasmodium yoelii model. Protection is …

Protective and pathogenic roles of CD8+ T cells during malaria infection

JCR Hafalla, IA Cockburn, F Zavala - Parasite immunology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
SUMMARY CD8+ T cells play a key role in protection against pre‐erythrocytic stages of
malaria infection. Many vaccine strategies are based on the idea of inducing a strong …

T cell-mediated immunity to malaria

SP Kurup, NS Butler, JT Harty - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2019 - nature.com
Immunity to malaria has been linked to the availability and function of helper CD4+ T cells,
cytotoxic CD8+ T cells and γδ T cells that can respond to both the asymptomatic liver stage …

Discriminating protective from nonprotective Plasmodium-specific CD8+ T cell responses

KL Doll, LL Pewe, SP Kurup, JT Harty - The Journal of Immunology, 2016 - journals.aai.org
Despite decades of research, malaria remains a global health crisis. Current subunit vaccine
approaches do not provide efficient long-term, sterilizing immunity against Plasmodium …