Clinical malaria vaccine development.
Immunol Lett
; 122(2): 115-7, 2009 Feb 21.
Article
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| ID: mdl-19100773
ABSTRACT
Malaria is a major economic and public health problem in mainly sub-Saharan Africa. Globally 300-500 million new infections occur each year with 1-3 million fatal cases in particular young children. The most effective way to reduce disease and death from infectious diseases is to vaccinate susceptible populations. Increasing parasite resistance against available cheap anti-malarial drugs urges the need for development of malaria vaccines.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Vacunas contra la Malaria
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Malaria
Tipo de estudio:
Prevalence_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Animals
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Humans
País/Región como asunto:
Africa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Immunol Lett
Año:
2009
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Países Bajos