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Design, Expression, and Evaluation of Nanoparticle Structure Containing Malaria Vaccine Candidate Antigen by Self-assembled Peptide Nanoparticles (SAPNs) and Confirmation of its Antigenicity Using Serum of Malaria Patients
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Alemzadeh, Iran (Supervisor) ; Abouei Mehrizi, Akram (Supervisor) ; Sardari, Soroush (Co-Supervisor) ; Zakeri, Sedigheh (Co-Supervisor)
Abstract
Malaria is one of the most important infectious diseases in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world and is caused in humans by the bite of the female Anopheles mosquito of five species of Plasmodium. According to the World Health Organization, about 229 million people worldwide were infected in 2019 by the disease, and 409,000 people died from the disease. Resistance of the parasite against drugs and resistance of vectors to insecticides and larvicides, which prevents the elimination and eradication of malaria, shows the need for new strategies, such as having an effective vaccine against this disease. In the second generation of vaccines, to develop malaria vaccines, recombinant...