Abstract
We examined the safety, immunogenicity and efficacy of a prime-boost vaccination regime involving two poxvirus malaria subunit vaccines, FP9-PP and MVA-PP, expressing the same polyprotein consisting of six pre-erythrocytic antigens from Plasmodium falciparum.
Following safety assessment of single doses, 15 volunteers received a heterologous prime-boost vaccination regime and underwent malaria sporozoite challenge. The vaccines were safe but interferon-γ ELISPOT responses were low compared to other poxvirus vectors, despite targeting multiple antigens. There was no vaccine efficacy as measured by delay in time to parasitaemia. A number of possible explanations are discussed, including the very large insert size of the polyprotein transgene.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 7514-7522 |
| Journal | Vaccine |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 43 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 6 Oct 2011 |
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Keywords
- Heterologous prime-boost
- immunology
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