Malaria transmission-blocking vaccines - How can their development be supported?

Nature Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 241-244

  Carter, Richard ^a   Mendis, Kamini N ^b   Miller, Louis H ^c   Molineaux, Louis ^d   Saul, Allan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; MALARIA VACCINE;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; VACCINATION; VACCINE PRODUCTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALARIA; MALARIA VACCINES; PLASMODIUM; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0034060808     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/73062     Document Type: Review

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