A plant-produced Pfs230 vaccine candidate blocks transmission of Plasmodium falciparum

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1351-1357

  Farrance, Christine E ^a   Rhee, Amy ^a   Jones, R Mark ^a   Musiychuk, Konstantin ^a   Shamloul, Moneim ^a   Sharma, Satish ^a   Mett, Vadim ^a   Chichester, Jessica A ^a   Streatfield, Stephen J ^a   Roeffen, Will ^b   Van De Vegte Bolmer, Marga ^b   Sauerwein, Robert W ^b   Tsuboi, Takafumi ^c   Muratova, Olga V ^d   Wu, Yimin ^d   Yusibov, Vidadi ^a  

^a Fraunhofer USA Inc   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

230CMB ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENT; MALARIA VACCINE; PARASITE ANTIBODY; PFS230 ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG PURITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLANT LEAF; PLANT TISSUE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VACCINE PRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALARIA VACCINES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLANTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 79961125713     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.05105-11     Document Type: Article

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