The Toll-Like Receptor 2 agonist PEG-Pam2Cys as an immunochemoprophylactic and immunochemotherapeutic against the liver and transmission stages of malaria parasites

Both vaccine and therapeutic approaches to malaria are based on conventional paradigms; whole organism or single antigen epitope-based vaccines administered with or without an adjuvant, and chemotherapeutics (anti-malaria drugs) that are toxic to the parasite. Two major problems that limit the effec...

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Main Authors: Medard Ernest, Carol Hunja, Yuka Arakura, Yohei Haraga, Hussein M. Abkallo, Weiguang Zeng, David C. Jackson, Brendon Chua, Richard Culleton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-12-01
Series:International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211320718300630

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