Dinglasan Rhoel R, Jacobs-Lorena Marcelo
Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Trends Parasitol. 2008 Aug;24(8):364-70. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2008.05.002. Epub 2008 Jul 1.
The idea of malaria transmission-blocking vaccines (TBVs) surfaced more than two decades ago. Since then, the research paradigm focused on developing TBVs that target surface antigens of parasite sexual stages. Only recently has an effort emerged that flipped this paradigm, targeting antigens of the parasite's obligate invertebrate vector, the Anopheles mosquito. Here, we review the current state of knowledge of mosquito-based TBVs and discuss the utility of this approach for future vaccine development.
疟疾传播阻断疫苗(TBV)的概念在二十多年前就已出现。从那时起,研究范式聚焦于开发针对寄生虫有性阶段表面抗原的TBV。直到最近,才出现了一种转变这一范式的努力,即针对寄生虫专性无脊椎动物载体——按蚊的抗原。在此,我们综述了基于蚊子的TBV的当前知识状态,并讨论了这种方法在未来疫苗开发中的效用。