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 …

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 …

[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 …

Highly potent, naturally acquired human monoclonal antibodies against Pfs48/45 block Plasmodium falciparum transmission to mosquitoes

A Fabra-García, S Hailemariam, RM de Jong… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Malaria transmission-blocking vaccines (TBVs) aim to induce antibodies that interrupt
malaria parasite development in the mosquito, thereby blocking onward transmission, and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Intranasal immunization with liposome-displayed receptor-binding domain induces mucosal immunity and protection against SARS-CoV-2

WC Huang, K Chiem, L Martinez-Sobrido, JF Lovell - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
The global pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2), has led to efforts in developing effective vaccine approaches. Currently, approved …