SPECIFICITY OF PROTECTION OF MAN IMMUNIZED AGAINST SPOROZOITE-INDUCED FALCIPARUM MALARIA
SPECIFICITY OF PROTECTION OF MAN IMMUNIZED AGAINST SPOROZOITE-INDUCED FALCIPARUM MALARIA
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DOI:
10.1097/00000441-197312000-00001
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发表时间:
1973-01-01
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
HORNICK, RB
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作者:
CLYDE, DF;MCCARTHY, VC;HORNICK, RB
This paper is a follow-up of the first report, published in the same journal[Am. J.Med. Sci., 1973, v. 266, 169; thisBulletin, 1974, v. 71, abstr. 447], on the immunization of human subjects by bites of irradiatedAnopheles stephensiinfected withPlasmodium falciparum. One of the volunteers who was exposed during the period of 421 days to 1441 X-irradiatedA. stephensiinfected with the Burma (Thai) strain ofP. falciparumshowed a high degree of protection in response to challenging infections with the homologous strain and other strains of falciparum malaria from Malaya, Panama and the Philippines. The resulting immunity was species-specific since a challenge with the Chesson strain of P.vivaxwas followed by an overt infection. The serum of the subject showed a positive circumsporozoite precipitation (CSP) test at 1 in 40 dilution against all the relevant strains ofP. falciparum, but was negative against the Chesson strain ofP. vivax. The CSP test remained positive at 1 in 20 dilution for 4 months after the immunization, and the duration of the protective immunity is now being investigated.L. J. Bruce-Chwatt.