Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21790942›Full record

ReviewCellular microbiology2011

Innate immune control of West Nile virus infection.

Alvaro Arjona, Penghua Wang, Ruth R Montgomery, Erol Fikrig

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Cellular microbiology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
31citing 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

31 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Comparative analysis of duck Tembusu virus Cluster 1 and Cluster 2.1 inCurrent research in parasitology & vector-borne diseases · 2025
    Article
  2. Article
  3. Mechanism of Immune Evasion in Mosquito-Borne Diseases.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
    Review
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Review
  10. Article
  11. Review
  12. Article
  13. Review
  14. Article
  15. The tortoise or the hare? Impacts of within-host dynamics on transmission success of arthropod-borne viruses.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2015
    Review
  16. Article
  17. Review
  18. Article
  19. Review
  20. Article
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

4 authors.

Alvaro ArjonaSection of Infectious Diseases, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Penghua Wang
Ruth R Montgomery
Erol Fikrig

Funding

Viral Pathogenesis and TherapeuticsU54AI057158 · NIAID · WADSWORTH CENTER · PI LIPKIN, W. IAN · 2003 to 2014
$100.8M
Systems investigation of vaccine responses in B cell depleted autoimmune patientsU19AI089992 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI David A. Hafler, RUTH R MONTGOMERY · 2010 to 2026
$50.4M
Immunotherapeutics for Treatment of Flavivirus InfectionU01AI070343 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI FIKRIG, EROL · 2006 to 2010
$6.6M
BORRELIA BURGDORFERI INTERACTIONS WITH IXODES SCAPULARISR01AI032947 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI FIKRIG, EROL · 1998 to 2012
$5.1M
Interactions Between Anaplasma Phagocytophilum and Ixodes ScapularisR01AI041440 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI FIKRIG, EROL · 1998 to 2014
$5.0M
Toll-like receptor responses to West Nile virusR01AI055749 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI FIKRIG, EROL · 2003 to 2007
$1.4M
CIRCADIAN REGULATION OF INNATE IMMUNE MECHANISMS OF VIRAL RECOGNITIONR21AI079360 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI FIKRIG, EROL · 2009 to 2010
$455k
IMMUNE FUNCTION AND BIODEFENSE IN CHILDREN. ELDERLY AND IMMUNOCOMPROMI-266050031N01AI050031 · NIAID · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI LARSEN, CHRISTOPHER · 2006 to 2006
–
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIAID NIH HHS AI-055749NIAID NIH HHS AI-50031NIAID NIH HHS N01 AI050031NIAID NIH HHS N01 AI500031NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI032947NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI041440NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI055749NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI079360NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI070343NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI089992NIAID NIH HHS U54 AI057158NIAID NIH HHS U54-AI057158
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

West Nile virus (WNV), from the Flaviviridae family, is a re-emerging zoonotic pathogen of medical importance. In humans, WNV infection may cause life-threatening meningoencephalitis or long-term neurologic sequelae. WNV is transmitted by Culex spp. mosquitoes and both the arthropod vector and the mammalian host are equipped with antiviral innate immune mechanisms sharing a common phylogeny. As far as the current evidence is able to demonstrate, mosquitoes primarily rely on RNA interference, Toll, Imd and JAK-STAT signalling pathways for limiting viral infection, while mammals are provided with these and other more complex antiviral mechanisms involving antiviral effectors, inflammatory mediators, and cellular responses triggered by highly specialized pathogen detection mechanisms that often resemble their invertebrate ancestry. This mini-review summarizes our current understanding of how the innate immune systems of the vector and the mammalian host react to WNV infection and shape its pathogenesis.

Indexed as

Immunity, InnateAnimalsCulicidaeHumansWest Nile FeverWest Nile virus

Identifiers

PMID21790942
PMCPMC3196381

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceTDM
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.