Evidence map›Paper›PMID 11927020›Full record

ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2002

Immunization with heterologous flaviviruses protective against fatal West Nile encephalitis.

Robert B Tesh, Amelia P A Travassos da Rosa, Hilda Guzman, Tais P Araujo, Shu-Yuan Xiao

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 81 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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81citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
16.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

81 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 198 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Robert B TeshUniversity of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, TX 77555-0609, USA. rtesh@utmb.edu
Amelia P A Travassos da Rosa
Hilda Guzman
Tais P Araujo
Shu-Yuan Xiao
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prior immunization of hamsters with three heterologous flaviviruses (Japanese encephalitis virus [JEV] SA14-2-8 vaccine, wild-type St. Louis encephalitis virus [SLEV], and Yellow fever virus [YFV] 17D vaccine) reduces the severity of subsequent West Nile virus (WNV) infection. Groups of adult hamsters were immunized with each of the heterologous flaviviruses; approximately 30 days later, the animals were injected intraperitoneally with a virulent New York strain of WNV. Subsequent levels of viremia, antibody response, and deaths were compared with those in nonimmune (control) hamsters. Immunity to JEV and SLEV was protective against clinical encephalitis and death after challenge with WNV. The antibody response in the sequentially infected hamsters also illustrates the difficulty in making a serologic diagnosis of WNV infection in animals (or humans) with preexisting Flavivirus immunity.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntibodies, ViralAntibody FormationCricetinaeEncephalitis Virus, JapaneseEncephalitis Virus, St. LouisFlavivirusWest Nile FeverWest Nile virusAntibodies, Viral

Identifiers

PMID11927020
PMCPMC2732478
OpenAlexW2016957024

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