Clinical trial in healthy malaria-naïve adults to evaluate the safety, tolerability, immunogenicity and efficacy of MuStDO5, a five-gene, sporozoite/hepatic stage Plasmodium falciparum DNA vaccine combined with escalating dose human GM-CSF DNA.

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Published in Hum Vaccin Immunother on November 01, 2012

Authors

Thomas L Richie1, Yupin Charoenvit, Ruobing Wang, Judith E Epstein, Richard C Hedstrom, Sanjai Kumar, Thomas C Luke, Daniel A Freilich, Joao C Aguiar, John B Sacci, Martha Sedegah, Ronald A Nosek, Patricia De La Vega, Mara P Berzins, Victoria F Majam, Esteban N Abot, Harini Ganeshan, Nancy O Richie, Jo Glenna Banania, Maria Fe B Baraceros, Tanya G Geter, Robin Mere, Lolita Bebris, Keith Limbach, Bradley W Hickey, David E Lanar, Jennifer Ng, Meng Shi, Peter M Hobart, Jon A Norman, Lorraine A Soisson, Michael R Hollingdale, William O Rogers, Denise L Doolan, Stephen L Hoffman

Author Affiliations

1: Naval Medical Research Center; Silver Spring, MD, USA. Thomas.Richie@med.navy.mil

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