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TWiP 74: Nature has all the answers, what is your question?

  • July 4, 2014
  • Tagged as: antigen, egress, malaria, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium falciparum, red blood cell, schizont, vaccine

Vincent and Dickson review a novel malaria vaccine candidate comprising a parasite protein involved in egress from red blood cells.

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TWiP 62: More bats out of hell

  • October 31, 2013
  • Tagged as: bat, Gabon, hookworm, malaria, parasite, parasitism, vaccine

Vincent and Dickson discuss the high diversity of malaria parasites in West African bats, and a vaccine against hookworm.

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TWiP 59: Apicomplexity

  • September 9, 2013
  • Tagged as: apicomplexa, cyclosporiasis, malaria, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium lophurae, reticuloendotheliosis virus, vaccine

Vincent and Dickson update the multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis, discuss the avian malaria parasite P. lophurae, and review protection against malaria by intravenous immunization with a nonreplicating sporozoite vaccine.

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TWiP 48: A parasitic cloaking device

  • December 22, 2012
  • Tagged as: immune evasion, parasite, parasitism, schistosome, tetraspanin, vaccine

Vincent, Dickson, and Yosef discuss tetraspanins on the surface of schistosomes as vaccine candidates and immune evasion proteins.

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TWiP 31 – A malaria vaccine

  • October 21, 2011
  • Tagged as: circumsporozoite, malaria, parasite, parasitism, twip, vaccine
p. falciparum life cycle

Vincent and Dickson discuss the promising results of a phase III trial of a malaria vaccine in African children.

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