The skin stage of malaria infection: Biology and relevance to the malaria vaccine effort

Future Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 275-278

  Sinnis, Photini ^a   Zavala, Fidel ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendritic cells; Dermal injection; Malaria; Plasmodium; Skin; Sporozoite; T cell priming; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

FINGOLIMOD; MALARIA VACCINE; SUBUNIT VACCINE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; VIRUS VECTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MIGRATION; DENDRITIC CELL; DERMIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG MECHANISM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INOCULATION; LIVER CELL; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALARIA; MAMMAL; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN INFECTION; SPOROZOITE; VACCINE PRODUCTION; ANIMAL; IMMUNOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SKIN;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALARIA; MALARIA VACCINES; PLASMODIUM; SKIN; SPOROZOITES;

EID: 46049083075     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17460913.3.3.275     Document Type: Review

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