Mannosylated liposomes formulated with whole parasite P. falciparum blood-stage antigens are highly immunogenic in mice.

Mannosylated liposomes formulated with whole parasite P. falciparum blood-stage antigens are highly immunogenic in mice. Vaccine. 2019 Dec 19;: Authors: Ssemaganda A, Giddam AK, Low LM, Liu XQ, Ho MF, Zaman M, Hussein WM, Skwarczynski M, Toth I, Stanisic DI, Good MF Abstract The development of a blood-stage malaria vaccine has largely focused on the subunit approach. However, the limited success of this strategy, mainly due to antigenic polymorphism and the failure to maintain potent parasite-specific immune responses, indicates that other approaches must be considered. Whole parasite (WP) vaccines offer many advantages over sub-units; they represent every antigen on the organism, thus limiting the effects of antigenic polymorphism, and similarly they compensate for individual Immune-Response (Ir) gene-regulated non-responsiveness to any particular antigen. From a development perspective, they negate the need to identify and compare the relative efficacies of individual candidate antigens. WP vaccines induce protective immunity that is largely cell-mediated. However, WP blood-stage vaccines present a number of challenges for the development pathway. Key issues are cryopreservation and storage and the possible induction of antibodies against red blood cell surface antigens, even if the parasites are grown in blood group O, Rh negative blood. Here, we used a novel adaptation of an immunomagnetic method from STEMCELL™ Technologies to ...
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