Determining liver stage parasite burden by real time quantitative PCR as a method for evaluating pre-erythrocytic malaria vaccine efficacy

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 233-245

  Witney, Adam A ^a,b   Doolan, Denise L ^a,c   Anthony, Robert M ^a,d   Weiss, Walter R ^a   Hoffman, Stephen L ^a   Carucci, Daniel J ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Rodent malaria; TaqMan; Vaccine efficacy

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CPG OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALARIA VACCINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY NVS3; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY NYS1; MULTIPLE ANTIGEN PEPTIDE; PLASMODIUM YOELII CIRCUMSPOROZOITE PROTEIN DNA VACCINE; PLASMODIUM YOELII HEPATOCYTE ERYTHROCYTE PROTEIN 17 DNA VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GAMMA RADIATION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LIVER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM YOELII; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RNA GENE; SPOROZOITE; VACCINIA VIRUS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GENES, RRNA; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; LIVER; MALARIA; MALARIA VACCINES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM YOELII; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TAQ POLYMERASE; VACCINATION; VACCINES, DNA;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PROTOZOA; RODENTIA; VACCINIA VIRUS;

EID: 0035662344     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(01)00372-3     Document Type: Article

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