Another Piece of the Malaria Vaccine Puzzle? (2 of 2) (VIDEO)
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Researcher Jonathan Kurtis, M.D., Ph.D., of Rhode Island Hospital and colleagues have discovered a protein that is essential for malaria-causing parasites to escape from inside red blood cells, which could lead to the development of a vaccine that would prevent the progression of Plasmodium falciparum malaria, which kills one child every 15 seconds each year in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. This video relates to a paper that appeared in the 23 May, 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Dipak Raj at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, R.I., and colleagues was titled, "Antibodies to PfSEA-1 block parasite egress from RBCs and protect against malaria infection."
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