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Reduction in the mean number of Plasmodium falciparum genotypes in Gambian children immunized with the malaria vaccine SPf66.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - 1 Feb 1999
Haywood M, Conway D J, Weiss H, Metzger W, D'Alessandro U, Snounou G, Targett G, Greenwood B
Abstract excerpt
SPf66, a synthetic peptide Plasmodium falciparum vaccine, did not protect young Gambian children against clinical attacks of malaria. Nevertheless, Gambian children who had been vaccinated with SPf66 and who were parasitaemic at the end of the first malaria transmission season after vaccination had significantly fewer detectable P. falciparum genotypes than control children, as determined by polymerase chain...
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