The pre-erythrocytic stage, when the parasite is in the hepatocytes MALARIA VACCINES
Life Cycle Of Malaria The asexual stage, when the parasite binds and infects the erythrocytes.
Finally the sexual stage, involves vaccines that elicit antibodies which prevent the development of the sexual stage within the midgut of the mosquito
MALARIA VACCINE DEVELOPMENT Pre-erythrocytic vaccines. R32Tox-A Trial:An average efficiency of 70.9% against Plasmodium falciparum. Life Cycle Of Malaria
Asexual stage vaccines Spf66 Trial: In Gambia; >5% effective in young children. Transmission blocking vaccines Pfs25 Life Cycle Of Malaria
Multistage-multicomponent versus Single stage vaccines Spf66 NYVAC- Pf7 Trial: Efficiency of 2.8% against Plasmodium falciparum. Trial 1: In Colombia it gave an efficiency of 33% over all ages and 77.2% over ages < 5 years. Trial 2: In Gambia it gave an efficiency of 8% in 6-11 month babies and 9% over ages 2-15 years.
Occurrence of malaria
Anti-malarial drugs Quinine (antipyretic drug) extracted from the bark of the cinchona tree. Chloroquine (less toxic than Quinine) Prophylaxis; Mefloquine & Halofantrine. Artemisinin (orally administered) Deoxycycline.