Protection against malaria a real possibility
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Protection against malaria a real possibility.
The results of an early-stage clinical trial have brought closer the prospect of a vaccine to help protect infants and children from becoming infected with a parasite that causes the most deadly form of malaria, a disease that, according to the WHO, kills more than one million people every year (1). Although the primary goal of the phase I/IIb clinical trial was to assess the safety of the vacc...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Investigation
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0021-9738
DOI: 10.1172/jci34430