Malaria vaccines: progress to date

DI Stanisic, MF Good - BioDrugs, 2023 - Springer
Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by protozoan parasites of the genus
Plasmodium. Despite significant declines in malaria-attributable morbidity and mortality over …

Current approaches to malaria vaccines

PE Duffy - Current opinion in microbiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•First malaria vaccine RTS, S induces anti-sporozoite antibodies to protect
children.•Whole-sporozoite vaccines induce T cells and antibodies and confer field …

Vaccination with Plasmodium vivax Duffy-binding protein inhibits parasite growth during controlled human malaria infection

MM Hou, JR Barrett, Y Themistocleous… - Science translational …, 2023 - science.org
There are no licensed vaccines against Plasmodium vivax. We conducted two phase 1/2a
clinical trials to assess two vaccines targeting P. vivax Duffy-binding protein region II …

[HTML][HTML] The PfRCR complex bridges malaria parasite and erythrocyte during invasion

B Farrell, N Alam, MN Hart, A Jamwal, RJ Ragotte… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The symptoms of malaria occur during the blood stage of infection, when parasites invade
and replicate within human erythrocytes. The PfPCRCR complex, containing PfRH5 (refs.,) …

A systematic analysis of the human immune response to Plasmodium vivax

FA Bach, DM Sandoval, M Mazurczyk… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
BACKGROUND The biology of Plasmodium vivax is markedly different from that of P.
falciparum; how this shapes the immune response to infection remains unclear. To address …

Multifunctional IgG/IgM antibodies and cellular cytotoxicity are elicited by the full-length MSP1 SumayaVac-1 malaria vaccine

M Rosenkranz, K Fürle, J Hibbert, A Ulmer, A Ali… - npj Vaccines, 2023 - nature.com
Radical control of malaria likely requires a vaccine that targets both the asymptomatic liver
stages and the disease-causing blood stages of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium …

Single cell transcriptomics shows that malaria promotes unique regulatory responses across multiple immune cell subsets

NL Dooley, TG Chabikwa, Z Pava… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Plasmodium falciparum malaria drives immunoregulatory responses across multiple cell
subsets, which protects from immunopathogenesis, but also hampers the development of …

Heterotypic interactions drive antibody synergy against a malaria vaccine candidate

RJ Ragotte, D Pulido, AM Lias, D Quinkert… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Understanding mechanisms of antibody synergy is important for vaccine design and
antibody cocktail development. Examples of synergy between antibodies are well …

Updates on malaria epidemiology and prevention strategies

M González-Sanz, P Berzosa, FF Norman - Current Infectious Disease …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The objective of this review was to provide an update on recent
malaria epidemiology, both globally and in non-endemic areas, to identify the current …

Pathogenicity and virulence of malaria: Sticky problems and tricky solutions

IS Walker, SJ Rogerson - Virulence, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Infections with Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax cause over 600,000 deaths
each year, concentrated in Africa and in young children, but much of the world's population …