Discovery of Novel Plasmodium falciparum Pre-Erythrocytic Antigens for Vaccine Development.

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Published in PLoS One on August 20, 2015

Authors

Joao C Aguiar1, Jessica Bolton2, Joyce Wanga3, John B Sacci4, Hideyuki Iriko5, Julie K Mazeika6, Eun-Taek Han7, Keith Limbach2, Noelle B Patterson2, Martha Sedegah8, Ann-Marie Cruz9, Takafumi Tsuboi10, Stephen L Hoffman8, Daniel Carucci8, Michael R Hollingdale2, Eileen D Villasante8, Thomas L Richie8

Author Affiliations

1: Malaria Department, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, MD 20910, United States of America; Camris International, Bethesda, MD 20814, United States of America.
2: Malaria Department, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, MD 20910, United States of America; The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Bethesda, MD 20817, United States of America.
3: Malaria Department, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, MD 20910, United States of America; Technical Resources International, Inc., Bethesda, MD 20817, United States of America.
4: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, United States of America.
5: Department of International Health, Kobe University Graduate School of Health Science, Kobe 654-0142, Japan.
6: Malaria Department, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, MD 20910, United States of America; EMD Millipore Corporation, North Andover, MA 01845, United States of America.
7: Department of Medical Environmental Biology and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do 200-701, Republic of Korea.
8: Malaria Department, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, MD 20910, United States of America.
9: PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, Washington, DC 20001, United States of America.
10: Proteo-Science Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8577, Japan.

Associated clinical trials:

Clinical Trial for Malaria Vaccines to Test for Safety, Immune Response and Protection Against Malaria (DNA-Ad) | NCT00870987

NMRC-M3V-Ad-PfCA Vaccine - Clinical Trial 1 | NCT00392015

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