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Mixed allele malaria vaccines: host protection and within-host selection.
Vaccine - 11 Nov 2008
Barclay Victoria C, Chan Brian H K, Anders Robin F, Read Andrew F
Abstract excerpt
Malaria parasites are frequently polymorphic at the antigenic targets of many candidate vaccines, presumably as a consequence of selection pressure from protective immune responses. Conventional wisdom is therefore that vaccines directed against a single variant could select for non-target variants, rendering the vaccine useless. Many people have argued that a solution is to develop vaccines containing the...
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