A vaccination strategy to prevent experimental cerebral malaria.

• Main Author: Ong, Joanne Wei En.
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences::Microbiology::Immunology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/45106
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Infection of C57BL/6 mice with Plasmodium berghei ANKA (PbA) induces a syndrome called experimental cerebral malaria (ECM) in mice, commonly used as a model to study cerebral malaria (CM) in humans, a major complication of Plasmodium falciparum infection. In this study we showed that immunization of...