The vaccine created by the team of scientists, which has completed the pre-clinical trial (animal experimenting), will induce an immune response comprising of antibodies.
However, the menace continues to prevail, causing diseases like malaria and dengue.
The vaccine created by the team of scientists, which has completed the pre-clinical trial (animal experimenting), will induce an immune response comprising of antibodies.
The vaccine created by the team of scientists, which has completed the pre-clinical trial (animal experimenting), will induce an immune response comprising of antibodies.
Chennai: Fogging and using mosquito coils and nets are only a few among various methods many use to protect themselves from mosquitoes.
However, the menace continues to prevail, causing diseases like malaria and dengue. Therefore, as a means to check malaria transmission, a team of scientists from New Orleans, USA, has invented a vaccine targeting the sexual development of malaria parasites in the mosquito vector.
Vector-borne diseases account for 17 per cent of the estimated global burden of all infectious diseases, according to reports of the World Health Organisation (WHO), and are a major public health problem, particularly in tropical and sub-tropical regions. Some of these diseases are fatal if not treated, while others leave patients disfigured and disabled.
The vaccine created by the team of scientists, which has completed the pre-clinical trial (animal experimenting), will induce an immune response comprising of antibodies. "When a mosquito bites a human being, it will pick up parasites mixed along with the antibodies.
The antibodies will prevent the parasites from further developing," said head of the team, Prof. Nirbhay Kumar, Professor of Tropical Medicine and Director of the Vector Borne Infectious Diseases centre, Tulane University, New Orleans, US, at the sidelines of the 13th conference on vector and vector borne diseases, jointly organized by the National Academy of Vector Borne Diseases, with the Central University of Tamil Nadu.
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