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SUBMITTER: Demarta-Gatsi C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4986535 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Demarta-Gatsi Claudia C Smith Leanna L Thiberge Sabine S Peronet Roger R Commere Pierre-Henri PH Matondo Mariette M Apetoh Lionel L Bruhns Pierre P Ménard Robert R Mécheri Salaheddine S
The Journal of experimental medicine 20160718 8
Although most vaccines against blood stage malaria in development today use subunit preparations, live attenuated parasites confer significantly broader and more lasting protection. In recent years, Plasmodium genetically attenuated parasites (GAPs) have been generated in rodent models that cause self-resolving blood stage infections and induce strong protection. All such GAPs generated so far bear mutations in housekeeping genes important for parasite development in red blood cells. In this stu ...[more]