| Literature DB >> 14551895 |
Vasee S Moorthy1, Margaret Pinder, William H H Reece, Kate Watkins, Sowsan Atabani, Carolyn Hannan, Kalifa Bojang, Keith P W J McAdam, Joerg Schneider, Sarah Gilbert, Adrian V S Hill.
Abstract
The present study is an investigation of the safety and immunogenicity of DNA and modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) candidate vaccines, each encoding the malaria DNA sequence multiple epitope-thrombospondin related adhesion protein (ME-TRAP), against Plasmodium falciparum. DNA ME-TRAP and MVA ME-TRAP are safe and immunogenic for effector and memory T cell induction. MVA ME-TRAP, with or without prior DNA ME-TRAP immunization, was more immunogenic and more cross-reactive in malaria-exposed individuals than in malaria-naive individuals, a finding suggesting that recombinant MVA vaccines are particularly promising for the development of a malaria vaccine for exposed populations. Both CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells were induced by these vaccines.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 14551895 DOI: 10.1086/378515
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Infect Dis ISSN: 0022-1899 Impact factor: 5.226