A randomised, double-blind, controlled vaccine efficacy trial of DNA/MVA ME-TRAP against malaria infection in Gambian adults

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 128-136

  Moorthy, Vasee S ^a,b   Imoukhuede, Egeruan B ^a   Milligan, Paul ^a   Bojang, Kalifa ^a   Keating, Sheila ^b   Kaye, Pauline ^a   Pinder, Margaret ^a   Gilbert, Sarah C ^c   Walraven, Gijs ^a   Greenwood, Brian M ^d   Hill, Adrian V S ^b,c  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM POTASSIUM SULFATE; MALARIA VACCINE; MULTIPLE EPITOPE THROMBOSPONDIN RELATED ADHESION PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA; PYRIMETHAMINE; RABIES VACCINE; SULFADOXINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINIA VACCINE; EPITOPE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; THROMBOSPONDIN RELATED ADHESIVE PROTEIN, PROTOZOAN; THROMBOSPONDIN-RELATED ADHESIVE PROTEIN, PROTOZOAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLISTER; BLOOD SMEAR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ETHNOLOGY; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GAMBIA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENICITY; INJECTION PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALARIA; MALE; NAUSEA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PNEUMONIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN DISCOLORATION; SKIN INDURATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MIDDLE AGED; T LYMPHOCYTE; VACCINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EPITOPES; GAMBIA; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MALARIA VACCINES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VACCINATION;

EID: 15744387886     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0010033     Document Type: Article

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