Sanaria’s PfSPZ Vaccine Achieves Durable Protection Against Heterologous Malaria Infection in a Clinical Trial

In a report published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, investigators from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), NIH and the University of Maryland School of Medicine reported that nine of fourteen subjects (64%) immunized with three doses of Sanaria® PfSPZ Vaccine were protected against homologous challenge with Plasmodium falciparum malaria 19 weeks after their last vaccine dose. Moreover, five of six of the protected subjects who underwent a subsequent heterologous challenge with Plasmodium falciparum 33 weeks after their last vaccine dose were protected.

Quantitative assessment of Plasmodium falciparum sexual development reveals potent transmission- blocking activity by methylene blue

Clinical studies and mathematical models predict that, to achieve malaria elimination, combination therapies will need to incorporate drugs that block the transmission of Plasmodium falciparum sexual stage parasites to mosquito vectors. Efforts to measure the activity of existing antimalarials on intraerythrocytic sexual stage gametocytes and identify transmission-blocking agents have, until now, been hindered by a lack of quantitative assays. Here, we report an experimental system using P. falciparum lines that stably express gametocyte-specific GFP-luciferase reporters, which enable the assessment of dose- and time-dependent drug action on gametocyte maturation and transmission.

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