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SUBMITTER: Bennett JW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4769081 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bennett Jason W JW Yadava Anjali A Tosh Donna D Sattabongkot Jetsumon J Komisar Jack J Ware Lisa A LA McCarthy William F WF Cowden Jessica J JJ Regules Jason J Spring Michele D MD Paolino Kristopher K Hartzell Joshua D JD Cummings James F JF Richie Thomas L TL Lumsden Joanne J Kamau Edwin E Murphy Jittawadee J Lee Cynthia C Parekh Falgunee F Birkett Ashley A Cohen Joe J Ballou W Ripley WR Polhemus Mark E ME Vanloubbeeck Yannick F YF Vekemans Johan J Ockenhouse Christian F CF
PLoS neglected tropical diseases 20160226 2
<h4>Background</h4>A vaccine to prevent infection and disease caused by Plasmodium vivax is needed both to reduce the morbidity caused by this parasite and as a key component in efforts to eradicate malaria worldwide. Vivax malaria protein 1 (VMP001), a novel chimeric protein that incorporates the amino- and carboxy- terminal regions of the circumsporozoite protein (CSP) and a truncated repeat region that contains repeat sequences from both the VK210 (type 1) and the VK247 (type 2) parasites, wa ...[more]