Sporozoite immunization: innovative translational science to support the fight against malaria

TL Richie, LWP Church, T Murshedkar… - Expert review of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Malaria, a devastating febrile illness caused by protozoan parasites, sickened
247,000,000 people in 2021 and killed 619,000, mostly children and pregnant women in …

Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Vaccines and Vaccine Adjuvants

SR Bonam, L Rénia, G Tadepalli, J Bayry, HMS Kumar - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Malaria—a parasite vector-borne disease—is a global health problem, and Plasmodium
falciparum has proven to be the deadliest among Plasmodium spp., which causes malaria in …

The chemoattractant receptor Ebi2 drives intranodal naive CD4+ T cell peripheralization to promote effective adaptive immunity

AP Baptista, A Gola, Y Huang, P Milanez-Almeida… - Immunity, 2019 - cell.com
Lymph nodes (LNs) play critical roles in adaptive immunity by concentrating in one location
the antigens, antigen-presenting cells, and antigen-responsive lymphocytes involved in …

First field efficacy trial of the ChAd63 MVA ME-TRAP vectored malaria vaccine candidate in 5-17 months old infants and children

AB Tiono, I Nébié, N Anagnostou, AS Coulibaly… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background Heterologous prime boost immunization with chimpanzee adenovirus 63
(ChAd63) and Modified Vaccinia Virus Ankara (MVA) vectored vaccines is a strategy …

Immune surveillance of the liver by T cells

X Ficht, M Iannacone - Science immunology, 2020 - science.org
The liver is the target of several infectious, inflammatory, and neoplastic diseases, which
affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide and cause an estimated death toll of more …

A natural peptide antigen within the plasmodium ribosomal protein RPL6 confers liver TRM cell-mediated immunity against malaria in mice

AM Valencia-Hernandez, WY Ng, N Ghazanfari… - Cell host & …, 2020 - cell.com
Liver-resident memory CD8+ T (T RM) cells remain in and constantly patrol the liver to elicit
rapid immunity upon antigen encounter and can mediate efficient protection against liver …

Expeditious recruitment of circulating memory CD8 T cells to the liver facilitates control of malaria

MN Lefebvre, FA Surette, SM Anthony, R Vijay… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Circulating memory CD8 T cell trafficking and protective capacity during liver-stage malaria
infection remains undefined. We find that effector memory CD8 T cells (Tem) infiltrate the …

Axes of heterogeneity in human tissue‐resident memory T cells

PA Szabo - Immunological Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tissue‐resident memory T cells (TRM) represent a dedicated layer of localized immune
memory in virtually every organ throughout the human body. By virtue of their long‐term …

The Development of Whole Sporozoite Vaccines for Plasmodium falciparum Malaria

LS Itsara, Y Zhou, J Do, AM Grieser… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Each year malaria kills hundreds of thousands of people and infects hundreds of millions of
people despite current control measures. An effective malaria vaccine will likely be …

Liver-resident memory T cells: life in lockdown

LJ Pallett, MK Maini - Seminars in Immunopathology, 2022 - Springer
A subset of memory T cells has been identified in the liver with a tissue-resident profile and
the capacity for long-term 'lockdown'. Here we review how they are retained in, and adapted …