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Phenotypic Analysis of Rodent Malaria Parasite Asexual and Sexual Blood Stages and Mosquito Stages
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The promise of asexual malaria vaccine development
1Affymax Research Institute, Santa Clara, California.
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
This review presents several reasons to support the belief that an asexual vaccine for human malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum will be developed. It lists many of the current vaccine candidates that we think are ready for human trials and it summarizes a strategy for the development of an asexual vaccine.
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