Exosomes and other extracellular vesicles: the new communicators in parasite infections

G Coakley, RM Maizels, AH Buck - Trends in parasitology, 2015 - cell.com
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as a ubiquitous mechanism for transferring
information between cells and organisms across all three kingdoms of life. In addition to their …

Malaria vaccines: progress to date

DI Stanisic, MF Good - BioDrugs, 2023 - Springer
Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by protozoan parasites of the genus
Plasmodium. Despite significant declines in malaria-attributable morbidity and mortality over …

Circulating Th1-cell-type Tfh cells that exhibit impaired B cell help are preferentially activated during acute malaria in children

N Obeng-Adjei, S Portugal, TM Tran, TB Yazew… - Cell reports, 2015 - cell.com
Malaria-specific antibody responses are short lived in children, leaving them susceptible to
repeated bouts of febrile malaria. The cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying this …

Immune Response and Evasion Mechanisms of Plasmodium falciparum Parasites

EB Belachew - Journal of immunology research, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Malaria causes approximately 212 million cases and 429 thousand deaths annually.
Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for the vast majority of deaths (99%) than others. The …

Heritable strategies for controlling insect vectors of disease

A Burt - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Mosquito-borne diseases are causing a substantial burden of mortality, morbidity and
economic loss in many parts of the world, despite current control efforts, and new …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges of drug-resistant malaria

S Sinha, B Medhi, R Sehgal - Parasite, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Over the past six decades, the drug resistance of Plasmodium falciparum has become an
issue of utmost concern. Despite the remarkable progress that has been made in recent …

Global diversity and balancing selection of 23 leading Plasmodium falciparum candidate vaccine antigens

MT Naung, E Martin, J Munro, S Mehra… - PLoS Computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Investigation of the diversity of malaria parasite antigens can help prioritize and validate
them as vaccine candidates and identify the most common variants for inclusion in vaccine …

Host-parasite interactions during Plasmodium infection: Implications for immunotherapies

P Chandley, R Ranjan, S Kumar, S Rohatgi - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Malaria is a global infectious disease that remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality
in the developing world. Multiple environmental and host and parasite factors govern the …

Strategies for designing and monitoring malaria vaccines targeting diverse antigens

AE Barry, A Arnott - Frontiers in immunology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
After more than 50 years of intensive research and development, only one malaria vaccine
candidate,“RTS, S,” has progressed to Phase 3 clinical trials. Despite only partial efficacy …

Interfering with immunity: detrimental role of type I IFNs during infection

SA Stifter, CG Feng - The Journal of Immunology, 2015 - journals.aai.org
Type I IFNs are known to inhibit viral replication and mediate protection against viral
infection. However, recent studies revealed that these cytokines play a broader and more …