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 …

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 …

Engineering Toxoplasma gondii secretion systems for intracellular delivery of multiple large therapeutic proteins to neurons

S Bracha, HJ Johnson, NA Pranckevicius, F Catto… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Delivering macromolecules across biological barriers such as the blood–brain barrier limits
their application in vivo. Previous work has demonstrated that Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite …

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 …

Strains used in whole organism Plasmodium falciparum vaccine trials differ in genome structure, sequence, and immunogenic potential

KA Moser, EF Drábek, A Dwivedi, EM Stucke… - genome medicine, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) whole-organism sporozoite vaccines have
been shown to provide significant protection against controlled human malaria infection …

Integrating biomaterials and immunology to improve vaccines against infectious diseases

L Yenkoidiok-Douti, CM Jewell - ACS Biomaterials Science & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Despite the success of vaccines in preventing many infectious diseases, effective vaccines
against pathogens with ongoing challenges—such as HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis …

[HTML][HTML] Immune responses in liver and spleen against Plasmodium yoelii pre-erythrocytic stages in Swiss mice model

AJ Siddiqui, J Bhardwaj, M Goyal, K Prakash… - Journal of Advanced …, 2020 - Elsevier
Though the immunity to malaria has been associated with cellular immune responses, the
exact function of the phenotypic cell population is still unclear. This study investigated the …

An open-label phase 1/2a trial of a genetically modified rodent malaria parasite for immunization against Plasmodium falciparum malaria

IJ Reuling, AM Mendes, GM de Jong… - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
For some diseases, successful vaccines have been developed using a nonpathogenic
counterpart of the causative microorganism of choice. The nonpathogenicity of the rodent …

A universal vaccine candidate against Plasmodium vivax malaria confers protective immunity against the three PvCSP alleles

AM Gimenez, AM Salman, RF Marques… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Malaria is a highly prevalent parasitic disease in regions with tropical and subtropical
climates worldwide. Among the species of Plasmodium causing human malaria, P. vivax is …

Microbiota, a third player in the host–Plasmodium affair

D Mukherjee, ÂF Chora, MM Mota - Trends in parasitology, 2020 - cell.com
Plasmodium, the causative agent of malaria, is responsible for more than 200 million new
infections and 400 000 deaths yearly. While in recent years the influence of the microbiota in …