Current Status Of Malaria Vaccinology
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In order to assess the one must first take
an overview of the whole of the whole disease. One must understand the disease
and its enormity on a global basis.
Malaria is a protozoan disease of which over 150 million cases are reported per
annum. In tropical Africa alone more than 1 million childre ....
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.... The parasitic protozoan enters the
bloodstream via the bite of an infected female mosquito. During her feeding she
transmits a small amount of anticoagulant and haploid sporozoites along with
saliva. The sporozoites head directly for the hepatic cells of the liver where
they multiply by asexual fission to produce merozoites. These merozoites can now
travel one of two paths. They can go to infect more hepatic liver cells or they
can attach to and penetrate erytherocytes. When inside the erythr ....
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