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Transmission-blocking activity induced by malaria vaccine candidates Pfs25/Pvs25 is a direct and predictable function of antibody titer

BACKGROUND: Mosquito stage malaria vaccines are designed to induce an immune response in the human host that will block the parasite's growth in the mosquito and consequently block transmission of the parasite. A mosquito membrane-feeding assay (MFA) is used to test transmission-blocking activi...

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Autores principales: Miura, Kazutoyo, Keister, David B, Muratova, Olga V, Sattabongkot, Jetsumon, Long, Carole A, Saul, Allan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1971714/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17686163
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-6-107