Addressing the bottleneck at clinical testing of candidate malaria vaccines

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Denise L Doolan et al. Pathog Glob Health. 2012 Oct.

. 2012 Oct;106(6):321-2.

doi: 10.1179/2047772412Z.00000000081.

¹ Infectious Diseases Programme, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia. Denise.Doolan@qimr.edu.au

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Efficacy of preerythrocytic and blood-stage malaria vaccines can be assessed in small sporozoite challenge trials in human volunteers.
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