South American monkeys in the development and testing of malarial vaccines - a review

Abstract

South American Aoutus an d Saimiri monkeys, which are susceptible to infection with human malarias, have been used to develop models for the testing of huma malaria vaccines. Studies indicate that blood-stage and sporozoite vaccines can be tested in these monkeys using appropriate strains of parasites.

Keywords

• malaria
• Plasmodium falciparum
• Plasmodium vivax
• monkey
• vaccines