The search for a malaria vaccine could soon be over, after an Australian-led trial has proven successful on mice.
The results, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, saw mice develop immunity to multiple strains of the disease.
We found that if you take blood stage parasite in red blood cells and treat it with a chemical that binds the DNA and then administer that as a vaccine to mice, and you can get protection against the strain, they’ll be immunised
, says Griffith University’s Jennifer Reiman, one of the authors of the study.
The vaccine is now ready for human trials, and researchers are hoping adult males in South-East Queensland might be willing volunteers.
If that turns out to be safe then we can go on and do clinical trials in areas where there’s malaria
, Ms Reiman says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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