Malaria In Pregnant Women : A First Step Towards A New Vaccine

By managing to express the protein that enables red blood cells infected with the malaria agent Plasmodium falciparum to bind to the placenta and by deciphering its molecular mechanisms, a team of researchers from CNRS and the Institut Pasteur has taken an important first step in the development of a vaccine against pregnancy-associated malaria. Their work was published in the journal PNAS. In endemic areas where malaria is rife, the main victims are children less than three years old…

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