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 …

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 …

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 …

Malaria vaccine efficacy, safety, and community perception in Africa: a scoping review of recent empirical studies

M Chutiyami, P Saravanakumar, UM Bello, D Salihu… - Infection, 2024 - Springer
Aim The review summarizes the recent empirical evidence on the efficacy, safety, and
community perception of malaria vaccines in Africa. Methods Academic Search Complete …

Vaccines and monoclonal antibodies: new tools for malaria control

K Miura, Y Flores-Garcia, CA Long… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Malaria remains one of the biggest health problems in the world. While significant reductions
in malaria morbidity and mortality had been achieved from 2000 to 2015, the favorable trend …

Co-infection of Plasmodium falciparum and Schistosoma mansoni is associated with anaemia

SD Dassah, KE Nyaah, DKJ Senoo, JB Ziem, Y Aniweh… - Malaria Journal, 2023 - Springer
Background Malaria and schistosomiasis persist as major public health challenge in sub-
Saharan Africa. These infections have independently and also in polyparasitic infection …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical formulation development of Plasmodium falciparum malaria vaccine candidates based on Pfs48/45, Pfs230, and PfCSP

J Plieskatt, P Bang, GK Wood, M Naghizadeh… - Vaccine, 2024 - Elsevier
Two malaria transmission-blocking vaccine (TBV) candidates, R0. 6C and ProC6C, have
completed preclinical development including the selection of adjuvants, Alhydrogel® with or …

[HTML][HTML] Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein 3 as a vaccine candidate: a brief review

KCS Alves, JM Guimarães, MEM Almeida… - Revista do Instituto de …, 2022 - SciELO Brasil
Despite the many efforts of researchers around the world, there is currently no effective
vaccine for malaria. Numerous studies have been developed to find vaccine antigens that …

Persistence of Anti-SE36 Antibodies Induced by the Malaria Vaccine Candidate BK-SE36/CpG in 5–10-Year-Old Burkinabe Children Naturally Exposed to Malaria

I Nebie, NMQ Palacpac, EC Bougouma, A Diarra… - Vaccines, 2024 - mdpi.com
Information on the dynamics and decline/persistence of antibody titres is important in
vaccine development. A recent vaccine trial in malaria-exposed, healthy African adults and …

Genetic diversity of glutamate-rich protein (GLURP) in Plasmodium falciparum isolates from school-age children in Kinshasa, DRC

KMM Paul, SV Simpson, SS Nundu, H Arima… - Parasitology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Malaria infections in school-age children further make it difficult to control the disease's
spread. Moreover, the genetic diversity of glutamate-rich protein, potentially a candidate for …