Experimental vaccine found to protect people from malaria

Q.  An experimental malaria vaccine has been found to protect small number of healthy people from infection one year after the immunisation- what is it called?
- Published on 12 May 16

a. PISZ
b. PfSPZ
c. PZPIS
d. None of the above

ANSWER: PfSPZ
 
An experimental vaccine has been found to protect a small number of healthy people from infection for more than one year after immunisation.
  • Vaccine called PfSPZ is developed and produced by US based pharma company Sanaria.
  • This vaccine confers long term sterile protection in select participants which has not been achieved with current vaccine approaches.
  • The PfSPZ Vaccine is composed of live, but weakened P. falciparum sporozoites — the early developmental form of the parasite.

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