Category: Nijmegen Medical Centre

Unique immunization method provides insights about protective anti-malaria immune response

July 30, 2009 by srrpenna

In this week's New England Journal of Medicine, scientists in Singapore, The Netherlands and France report that they have developed a novel immunization method that will induce fast and effective protection in humans against the life-threatening malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, which infects 350 to 500 million people world-wide and kills over one million people each year.

"It is not practical to apply the experimental method used in our study as a means of vaccination," said Laurent Renia, Ph.D., principal investigator at the Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN).