Sporozoite immunization: innovative translational science to support the fight against malaria

TL Richie, LWP Church, T Murshedkar… - Expert Review of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Malaria, a devastating febrile illness caused by protozoan parasites, sickened
247,000,000 people in 2021 and killed 619,000, mostly children and pregnant women in …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of novel malaria transmission-blocking vaccine candidates

E Takashima, M Tachibana, M Morita… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Control measures have significantly reduced malaria morbidity and mortality in the last two
decades; however, the downward trends have stalled and have become complicated by the …

mRNA-LNP expressing PfCSP and Pfs25 vaccine candidates targeting infection and transmission of Plasmodium falciparum

CTH Hayashi, Y Cao, LC Clark, AK Tripathi, F Zavala… - npj Vaccines, 2022 - nature.com
Malaria is a deadly disease responsible for between 550,000 and 627,000 deaths annually.
There is a pressing need to develop vaccines focused on malaria elimination. The complex …

A human antibody epitope map of Pfs230D1 derived from analysis of individuals vaccinated with a malaria transmission-blocking vaccine

WK Tang, CH Coelho, K Miura, BCN Tentokam… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Summary Pfs230 domain 1 (Pfs230D1) is an advanced malaria transmission-blocking
vaccine antigen demonstrating high functional activity in clinical trials. However, the …

[PDF][PDF] Highly potent, naturally acquired human monoclonal antibodies against Pfs48/45 block Plasmodium falciparum transmission to mosquitoes

A Fabra-García, S Hailemariam, RM de Jong… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Malaria transmission-blocking vaccines (TBVs) aim to induce antibodies that interrupt
malaria parasite development in the mosquito, thereby blocking onward transmission, and …

Design of a stabilized non-glycosylated Pfs48/45 antigen enables a potent malaria transmission-blocking nanoparticle vaccine

TH Dickey, R Gupta, H McAleese, T Ouahes… - npj Vaccines, 2023 - nature.com
A malaria vaccine that blocks parasite transmission from human to mosquito would be a
powerful method of disrupting the parasite lifecycle and reducing the incidence of disease in …

Structure of the malaria vaccine candidate Pfs48/45 and its recognition by transmission blocking antibodies

KT Ko, F Lennartz, D Mekhaiel, B Guloglu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
An effective malaria vaccine remains a global health priority and vaccine immunogens
which prevent transmission of the parasite will have important roles in multi-component …

[PDF][PDF] Potent transmission-blocking monoclonal antibodies from naturally exposed individuals target a conserved epitope on Plasmodium falciparum Pfs230

D Ivanochko, A Fabra-García, K Teelen… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Pfs230 is essential for Plasmodium falciparum transmission to mosquitoes and is the protein
targeted by the most advanced malaria-transmission-blocking vaccine candidate. Prior …

Monoclonal antibodies for malaria prevention

M Aleshnick, M Florez-Cuadros, T Martinson… - Molecular Therapy, 2022 - cell.com
Monoclonal antibodies are highly specific proteins that are cloned from a single B cell and
bind to a single epitope on a pathogen. These laboratory-made molecules can serve as …

Single-chain polymer nanoparticles targeting the ookinete stage of malaria parasites

NM Hamelmann, JWD Paats… - ACS Infectious …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Malaria is an infectious disease transmitted by mosquitos, whose control is hampered by
drug resistance evolution in the causing agent, protist parasites of the genus Plasmodium …