New candidate malaria vaccine neutralises parasite strains | Wellcome Trust

New candidate malaria vaccine neutralises parasite strains | Wellcome Trust


21 December 2011
Schizont of Plasmodium falciparum
A new candidate malaria vaccine with the potential to neutralise all strains of the most deadly species of malaria parasite has been developed by a team led by scientists at the University of Oxford. This new work independently confirms the utility of a key discovery reported last month by scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, as it involves the target they had identified within the parasite as a potential ‘Achilles’ heel’.

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