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Trial reportPloS one2017

Strain-specific Plasmodium falciparum growth inhibition among Malian children immunized with a blood-stage malaria vaccine.

Matthew B Laurens, Bourema Kouriba, Elke Bergmann-Leitner, Evelina Angov, Drissa Coulibaly, Issa Diarra, Modibo Daou, Amadou Niangaly, William C Blackwelder, Yukun Wu and 11 more

Registry-linked trialOpen access · goldAbstract readClinical Trial, Phase IIRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in PloS one, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00460525 (Randomized, Controlled Phase II Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Safety, Immunogenicity and Efficacy of the AMA-1 Malaria Vaccine FMP2.1/AS02A Versus Rabies Vaccine in 1-6 Year Old Children in Bandiagara, Mali), which is not on this map. Cited by 10 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT00460525 phase2completednot on this map

Randomized, Controlled Phase II Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Safety, Immunogenicity and Efficacy of the AMA-1 Malaria Vaccine FMP2.1/AS02A Versus Rabies Vaccine in 1-6 Year Old Children in Bandiagara, Mali

TypeinterventionalSponsorU.S. Army Medical Research and Development CommandRan2007 to 2009Enrolled400ConditionsPlasmodium Falciparum MalariaArmsFMP2.1/AS02A, Rabies Vaccine
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Antibodies Against theFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021
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  5. Host-Malaria Parasite Interactions and Impacts on Mutual Evolution.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2020
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  10. Novel Strategies for Malaria Vaccine Design.Frontiers in immunology · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

21 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Matthew B LaurensDivision of Malaria Research, Institute for Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3874-581X
Bourema KouribaMalaria Research and Training Center, Bamako, Mali.
Elke Bergmann-LeitnerU.S. Military Malaria Vaccine Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America.
Evelina AngovU.S. Military Malaria Vaccine Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America.
Drissa CoulibalyMalaria Research and Training Center, Bamako, Mali.
Issa DiarraMalaria Research and Training Center, Bamako, Mali.
Modibo DaouMalaria Research and Training Center, Bamako, Mali.
Amadou NiangalyMalaria Research and Training Center, Bamako, Mali.
William C BlackwelderDivision of Malaria Research, Institute for Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
Yukun WuDivision of Malaria Research, Institute for Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
Joe CohenGSK Vaccines, Rixensart, Belgium.
W Ripley BallouGSK Vaccines, Rixensart, Belgium.
Johan VekemansGSK Vaccines, Rixensart, Belgium.
David E LanarU.S. Military Malaria Vaccine Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America.
Sheetij DuttaU.S. Military Malaria Vaccine Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America.
Carter DiggsMalaria Vaccine Development Program, U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, United States of America.
Lorraine SoissonMalaria Vaccine Development Program, U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, United States of America.
D Gray HeppnerU.S. Military Malaria Vaccine Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America.
Ogobara K DoumboMalaria Research and Training Center, Bamako, Mali.
Christopher V PloweDivision of Malaria Research, Institute for Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
Mahamadou A TheraMalaria Research and Training Center, Bamako, Mali.
University of Bamako · MLWalter Reed Army Institute of Research · USUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore · USGlaxoSmithKline (Belgium) · BEUnited States Agency for International Development · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The blood-stage malaria vaccine FMP2.1/AS02A, comprised of recombinant Plasmodium falciparum apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA1) and the adjuvant system AS02A, had strain-specific efficacy against clinical malaria caused by P. falciparum with the vaccine strain 3D7 AMA1 sequence. To evaluate a potential correlate of protection, we measured the ability of participant sera to inhibit growth of 3D7 and FVO strains in vitro using high-throughput growth inhibition assay (GIA) testing. Sera from 400 children randomized to receive either malaria vaccine or a control rabies vaccine were assessed at baseline and over two annual malaria transmission seasons after immunization. Baseline GIA against vaccine strain 3D7 and FVO strain was similar in both groups, but more children in the malaria vaccine group than in the control group had 3D7 and FVO GIA activity ≥15% 30 days after the last vaccination (day 90) (49% vs. 16%, p<0.0001; and 71.8% vs. 60.4%, p = 0.02). From baseline to day 90, 3D7 GIA in the vaccine group was 7.4 times the mean increase in the control group (p<0.0001). In AMA1 vaccinees, 3D7 GIA activity subsequently returned to baseline one year after vaccination (day 364) and did not correlate with efficacy in the extended efficacy time period to day 730. In Cox proportional hazards regression models with time-varying covariates, there was a slight suggestion of an association between 3D7 GIA activity and increased risk of clinical malaria between day 90 and day 240. We conclude that vaccination with this AMA1-based malaria vaccine increased inhibition of parasite growth, but this increase was not associated with allele-specific efficacy in the first malaria season. These results provide a framework for testing functional immune correlates of protection against clinical malaria in field trials, and will help to guide similar analyses for next-generation malaria vaccines. Clinical trials registry: This clinical trial was registered on clinicaltrials.gov, registry number NCT00460525.

Indexed as

Antigens, ProtozoanChildErythrocytesHumansMalaria, FalciparumMalaria VaccinesMaliMembrane ProteinsPlasmodium falciparumProportional Hazards ModelsProtozoan ProteinsRecombinant ProteinsAntigens, Protozoanapical membrane antigen I, PlasmodiumMalaria VaccinesMembrane ProteinsProtozoan ProteinsRecombinant Proteins

Identifiers

PMID28282396
PMCPMC5345808
OpenAlexW2593741866

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