期刊
HUMAN VACCINES
卷 6, 期 1, 页码 107-113出版社
LANDES BIOSCIENCE
DOI: 10.4161/hv.6.1.9654
关键词
malaria; plasmodium; vaccine; elimination; sporozoite; liver stage; pre-erythrocytic stages; mosquito; attenuation
资金
- Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
- National Institutes of Health
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES [R01AI053709, R01AI057592, R56AI080685, R01AI076498] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Malaria remains one of the most significant infectious diseases affecting human populations in developing countries. The quest for an efficacious malaria vaccine has been ongoing for nearly a century with limited success. The identification of malaria parasite antigens focused efforts on the development of subunit vaccines but has so far yielded only one partially efficacious vaccine candidate, RTS/S. The lack of high vaccine efficacy observed to date with subunit vaccine candidates raises doubts that the development of a single antigen or even a multi-antigen malaria subunit vaccine is possible. Fortunately, it has been demonstrated in animal studies and experimental clinical studies that immunizations with live-attenuated sporozoite stages of the malaria parasite confer long lasting, sterile protection against infection, providing a benchmark for vaccine development. These early successful vaccinations with live-attenuated malaria parasites did not however, promote a developmental path forward for such a vaccine approach. The discovery of genetically engineered parasite strains that are fully attenuated during the early asymptomatic liver infection and confer complete sterile protection in animal malaria models support the development of a live attenuated sporozoite vaccine for Plasmodium falciparum and its accelerated safety and efficacy testing in malaria challenge models and in malaria endemic areas.
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