PLOS Medicine Collection On Malaria

To mark the Fourth MIM Pan-African Malaria conference on November 13-18, 2005 in Yaoundé, Cameroon, PLOS medicine published four new articles, and an index to a collection of previous articles on malaria.A Malaria Vaccine That Elicits in Humans Antibodies Able to Kill Plasmodium falciparumPierre Druilhe, François Spertini, Daw Soesoe, Giampietro Corradin, Pedro Mejia, Subhash Sing , Regine Audran, Ahmed Bouzidi, Claude Oeuvray, Christian RoussilhonPromising Functional Readouts of Immunity in a Blood-Stage Malaria Vaccine TrialBrendan Crabb, James BeesonHeritability of Malaria in AfricaMargaret Mackinnon, Robert Snow, Kevin Marsh, Thomas WilliamsMaternal Malaria and Gravidity Interact to Modify Infant Susceptibility to MalariaPatrick Duffy, Theonest Mutabingwa, Melissa Bolla, Jin-Long Li, Gonzalo Domingo, Xiaohong Li, Michal Fried