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. 2015 Aug 10;3(3):638–661. doi: 10.3390/vaccines3030638

Table 2.

Examples of various types of nanoparticles studied for antigen delivery.

Category Nanoparticle Material Size Antigen (pathogen) Ref.
Inorganic (Non-degradable) Iron Silica 20–300 nm MSP1 (Plasmodium falciparum) BSA [14,44]
Liposome (Non-viral lipids particle) Cholesterol Lipid Lipid 200 nm Polysaccharides (Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 14) VMP001 (Plasmodium vivax) RTS,S/AS01B (Plasmodium falciparum CSP + hepatitis B protein hybrid) [45,46,47]
Virus-like particle Viral capsid expressed in Bacurlovirus Bacteriophage expressed in E. coli C41 27–60 nm Capsid protein L1 + L2 (HPV) Capsid protein L2 (HPV) [19,20]
Polymeric Chitosan 160–1000 nm Hepatitis B [30,48,49,50,51,52]
PLGA Ovalbumin
PLGA Tetanus toxoid
PVPONAlk Ovalbumin
γ-PGA gp120 (HIV-1)