Malaria Elimination: Vaccines should be Tested on Larger Groups of Volunteers (IMAGE)

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Malaria Elimination: Vaccines should be Tested on Larger Groups of Volunteers

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Controlled human malaria infection is an important and powerful tool in clinical malaria vaccine development: healthy volunteers are exposed to mosquitoes infected with malaria in a highly controlled environment to evaluate a possible protective effect of the candidate vaccine.

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CC-BY: Radboud University Medical Center Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

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