Immunologic Factor
malaria vaccine
ma·lar·i·a vac·cine [ muh-lair-ee-uh vak-seen, vak-seen, -sin ]
Subclass of:
Protozoan Vaccines
Definitions related to malaria vaccines:
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Vaccine administered for the prevention or treatment of malaria.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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Vaccines made from antigens arising from any of the four strains of Plasmodium which cause malaria in humans, or from P. berghei which causes malaria in rodents.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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