Journal
VACCINE
Volume 31, Issue -, Pages B244-B249Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.11.080
Keywords
Leishmaniasis; Vaccine; Adjuvant
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- EU
- Wellcome Trust
- NIAID
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- MRC [G1000230] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G1000230] Funding Source: researchfish
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Leishmaniasis in many ways offers a unique vaccine case study. Two reasons for this are that leishmaniasis is a disease complex caused by several different species of parasite that are highly related, thus raising the possibility of developing a single vaccine to protect against multiple diseases. Another reason is the demonstration that a leishmaniasis vaccine may be used therapeutically as well as prophylactically. Although there is no registered human leishmaniasis vaccine today, immunization approaches using live or killed organisms, as well as defined vaccine candidates, have demonstrated at least some degree of efficacy in humans to prevent and to treat some forms of leishmaniasis, and there is a vigorous pipeline of candidates in development. Current approaches include using individual or combined antigens of the parasite or of salivary gland extract of the parasites' insect vector, administered with or without formulation in adjuvant. Animal data obtained with several vaccine candidates are promising and some have been or will be entered into clinical testing in the near future. There is sufficient scientific and epidemiological justification to continue to invest in the development of vaccines against leishmaniasis. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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