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CELL REPORTS
Volume 5, Issue 5, Pages 1204-1213Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2013.11.002
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- NHMRC (Australia)
- Queensland Government Smart Futures National and International Research Alliances Program
- Queensland Tropical Health Alliance
- Queensland Government Smart Futures Fellowship
- ARC Future Fellowship
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Malaria is a highly prevalent disease caused by infection by Plasmodium spp., which infect hepatocytes and erythrocytes. Blood-stage infections cause devastating symptoms and can persist for years. Antibodies and CD4(+) T cells are thought to protect against blood-stage infections. However, there has been considerable difficulty in developing an efficacious malaria vaccine, highlighting our incomplete understanding of immunity against this disease. Here, we used an experimental rodent malaria model to show that PD-1 mediates up to a 95% reduction in numbers and functional capacity of parasite-specific CD8(+) T cells. Furthermore, in contrast to widely held views, parasite-specific CD8(+) T cells are required to control both acute and chronic blood-stage disease even when parasite-specific antibodies and CD4(+) T cells are present. Our findings provide a molecular explanation for chronic malaria that will be relevant to future malaria-vaccine design and may need consideration when vaccine development for other infections is problematic.
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