Malaria vaccines: a new era of prevention and control

PE Duffy, JP Gorres, SA Healy, M Fried - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2024 - nature.com
Malaria killed over 600,000 people in 2022, a death toll that has not improved since 2015.
Additionally, parasites and mosquitoes resistant to existing interventions are spreading …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Vaccination with a structure-based stabilized version of malarial antigen Pfs48/45 elicits ultra-potent transmission-blocking antibody responses

B McLeod, MT Mabrouk, K Miura, R Ravichandran… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Malaria transmission-blocking vaccines (TBVs) aim to elicit human antibodies that inhibit
sporogonic development of Plasmodium falciparum in mosquitoes, thereby preventing …

[HTML][HTML] A human antibody epitope map of Pfs230D1 derived from analysis of individuals vaccinated with a malaria transmission-blocking vaccine

WK Tang, CH Coelho, K Miura, BCN Tentokam… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Summary Pfs230 domain 1 (Pfs230D1) is an advanced malaria transmission-blocking
vaccine antigen demonstrating high functional activity in clinical trials. However, the …

A potent and durable malaria transmission-blocking vaccine designed from a single-component 60-copy Pfs230D1 nanoparticle

ND Salinas, R Ma, TH Dickey, H McAleese, T Ouahes… - npj Vaccines, 2023 - nature.com
Malaria transmission-blocking vaccines (TBVs) reduce disease transmission by breaking the
continuous cycle of infection between the human host and the mosquito vector. Domain 1 …

Designing an effective malaria vaccine targeting Plasmodium vivax Duffy-binding protein

TH Dickey, NH Tolia - Trends in parasitology, 2023 - cell.com
Malaria caused by the Plasmodium vivax parasite is a major global health burden. Immunity
against blood-stage infection reduces parasitemia and disease severity. Duffy-binding …

Potent transmission-blocking monoclonal antibodies from naturally exposed individuals target a conserved epitope on Plasmodium falciparum Pfs230

D Ivanochko, A Fabra-García, K Teelen… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Pfs230 is essential for Plasmodium falciparum transmission to mosquitoes and is the protein
targeted by the most advanced malaria-transmission-blocking vaccine candidate. Prior …

Host-parasite interactions during Plasmodium infection: Implications for immunotherapies

P Chandley, R Ranjan, S Kumar, S Rohatgi - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Malaria is a global infectious disease that remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality
in the developing world. Multiple environmental and host and parasite factors govern the …

Design of a stabilized non-glycosylated Pfs48/45 antigen enables a potent malaria transmission-blocking nanoparticle vaccine

TH Dickey, R Gupta, H McAleese, T Ouahes… - npj Vaccines, 2023 - nature.com
A malaria vaccine that blocks parasite transmission from human to mosquito would be a
powerful method of disrupting the parasite lifecycle and reducing the incidence of disease in …

A human antibody epitope map of the malaria vaccine antigen Pfs25

N Shukla, WK Tang, CH Coelho, CA Long, SA Healy… - npj Vaccines, 2023 - nature.com
Pfs25 is a leading antigen for a malaria transmission-blocking vaccine and shows moderate
transmission-blocking activity and induction of rapidly decreasing antibody titers in clinical …