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Malaria Vaccines: The Continuing Quest (Hardcover)
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Malaria Vaccines: The Continuing Quest (Hardcover)
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In 2013, 200 million people were infected with malaria, resulting
in over 584,000 deaths, with the potential to affect over half the
world's population. Such is the widespread nature of malaria that
it is increasingly believed only a vaccine will lead to its
eradication.Although the first attempt at a vaccine was made a
century ago, it is only in the last 30 years that real progress in
testing has been made, in the hope of discovering a molecule that
can provide long-lasting protection against the disease. In July
2015, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced that after 30 years of
research it had received the green light from the European
Medicines Agency for the world's first malaria vaccine, RTS, S, for
use in African children aged 6 weeks to 17 months.This book
chronicles the development of RTS, S - done in collaboration with
the Walter Reed Army Institute for Research, the PATH Malaria
Vaccine Initiative (MVI) and funded in part by the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation - as well as previous candidate vaccines. It also
focusses on the continuing quest to find more effective vaccines
against this continuing health crisis. Finally, it provides an
easily understood background on recombinant DNA and monoclonal
antibodies and places them in perspective to their contributions to
malaria vaccine development.This book serves as a convenient and
easily accessible source of information for students, teachers,
microbiologists, parasitologists, physicians, clinicians and
research funders.
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