[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Immune response to SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in vaccinated individuals

M Becker, A Dulovic, D Junker, N Ruetalo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 is evolving with mutations in the receptor binding domain (RBD) being of
particular concern. It is important to know how much cross-protection is offered between …

Two chemoattenuated PfSPZ malaria vaccines induce sterile hepatic immunity

A Mwakingwe-Omari, SA Healy, J Lane, DM Cook… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The global decline in malaria has stalled, emphasizing the need for vaccines that induce
durable sterilizing immunity. Here we optimized regimens for chemoprophylaxis vaccination …

[HTML][HTML] A PfSPZ vaccine immunization regimen equally protective against homologous and heterologous controlled human malaria infection

B Mordmüller, Z Sulyok, M Sulyok, Z Molnar… - npj Vaccines, 2022 - nature.com
Immunization with radiation-attenuated Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) sporozoites (SPZ) in
PfSPZ Vaccine, has provided better vaccine efficacy (VE) against controlled human malaria …

[HTML][HTML] Safety, tolerability, and Plasmodium falciparum transmission-reducing activity of monoclonal antibody TB31F: a single-centre, open-label, first-in-human, dose …

SC van der Boor, MJ Smit, SW van Beek… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Malaria elimination requires interruption of the highly efficient transmission of
Plasmodium parasites by mosquitoes. TB31F is a humanised monoclonal antibody that …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Five decades of clinical assessment of whole-sporozoite malaria vaccines

H Nunes-Cabaço, D Moita, M Prudêncio - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In 1967, pioneering work by Ruth Nussenzweig demonstrated for the first time that irradiated
sporozoites of the rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium berghei protected mice against a …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

A replication competent Plasmodium falciparum parasite completely attenuated by dual gene deletion

D Goswami, H Patel, W Betz, J Armstrong… - EMBO Molecular …, 2024 - embopress.org
Vaccination with infectious Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) sporozoites (SPZ) administered with
antimalarial drugs (PfSPZ-CVac), confers superior sterilizing protection against infection …