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Malaria Vaccination Quickly Loses Protective Effect

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Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) recently announced they studied how the human immune response after immunization with the malaria pathogen Plasmodium falciparum (Pf).
Their goal was to find out against which protein components the T helper cells induced in this way are directed. 
Published by the journal Science Immunology on June 10, 2022, this study revealed T helper cells reacted exclusively to the protein sequence of the vaccine strain and showed hardly any cross-reactivity with the naturally occurring pathogen variants.