Evidence map›Paper›PMID 16321039›Full record

ReviewBiotechnology progress

Bioprocess engineering issues that would be faced in producing a DNA vaccine at up to 100 m3 fermentation scale for an influenza pandemic.

Mike Hoare, M Susana Levy, Daniel G Bracewell, Steven D Doig, Simyee Kong, Nigel Titchener-Hooker, John M Ward, Peter Dunnill

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Biotechnology progress. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. Review
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Review
  7. Article
  8. Review
  9. Review
  10. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Mike HoareThe Advanced Centre for Biochemical Engineering, Department of Biochemical Engineering, University College London, Torrington Place, UK.
M Susana Levy
Daniel G Bracewell
Steven D Doig
Simyee Kong
Nigel Titchener-Hooker
John M Ward
Peter Dunnill

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The risk of a pandemic with a virulent form of influenza is acknowledged by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other agencies. Current vaccine production facilities would be unable to meet the global requirement for vaccine. As a possible supplement a DNA vaccine may be appropriate, and bioprocess engineering factors bearing on the use of existing biopharmaceutical and antibiotics plants to produce it are described. This approach addresses the uncertainty of timing of a pandemic that precludes purpose-built facilities. The strengths and weaknesses of alternative downstream processing routes are analyzed, and several gaps in public domain information are addressed. The conclusion is that such processing would be challenging but feasible.

Indexed as

AdsorptionBiomedical EngineeringBioreactorsBiotechnologyChemistry, PharmaceuticalChromatographyDisease OutbreaksEscherichia coliFermentationFractional PrecipitationHot TemperatureHumansHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationInfluenza, HumanInfluenza VaccinesPlasmidsInfluenza VaccinesVaccines, DNA

Identifiers

PMID16321039
PMCPMC7161863

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.