Extreme Polymorphism in a Vaccine Antigen and Risk of Clinical Malaria: Implications for Vaccine Development

Author:

Takala Shannon L.1,Coulibaly Drissa2,Thera Mahamadou A.2,Batchelor Adrian H.3,Cummings Michael P.4,Escalante Ananias A.5,Ouattara Amed12,Traoré Karim2,Niangaly Amadou2,Djimdé Abdoulaye A.2,Doumbo Ogobara K.2,Plowe Christopher V.1

Affiliation:

1. Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 685 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.

2. Malaria Research and Training Center, Department of Epidemiology of Parasitic Diseases, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali, West Africa.

3. University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.

4. Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.

5. School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.

Abstract

Children from Mali who are repeatedly infected with malaria are more likely to get sick if the parasite is highly variable, a possible obstacle to an effective vaccine.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

General Medicine

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