Um knockout duplo na malária

A double knockout against malaria

by Tim Fulmer, Senior Writer

Published online Aug. 6 2009; doi:10.1038/scibx.2009.1164

American and Australian researchers have designed a genetically attenuated Plasmodium falciparum that could enable a vaccine to arrest the malaria parasite's route to increasing pathogenicity. The vaccine will enter Phase I/IIa testing early next year.

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