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ArticleF1000 medicine reports2011

Vaccines for invasive fungal infections.

Brad Spellberg

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Article in F1000 medicine reports, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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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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

29 citing papers in PubMed, 72 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. mBio · 2024
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  5. Invasive fungal infections.African journal of thoracic and critical care medicine · 2022
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  8. Advances in Fungal Peptide Vaccines.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
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  17. Mitigating amphibian chytridiomycoses in nature.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Brad SpellbergDivision of General Internal Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Harbor-University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center 1124 West Carson Street, Liu Vaccine Center, Torrance, CA 90502 USA.
UCLA Medical Center · US

Funding

Innate Effectors of rAls3p-N Anti-Candida VaccineR01AI077681 · NIAID · LUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER · PI SPELLBERG, BRAD J · 2009 to 2010
$711k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI077681
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Morbidity and mortality from invasive fungal infections remain unacceptably high despite availability of new antifungal agents, underscoring the need for more effective preventative strategies. Due to our enhanced understanding of the host defense and pathogenetic mechanisms that lead to invasive fungal infections, it should be feasible to develop vaccines targeting these infections. A common immunological theme across many vaccine candidates for invasive fungal infections has been the need to activate a cell-based, pro-inflammatory, Th1 or Th17 immune response to improve phagocytic killing of the fungi. Since neutralization of virulence factor functions has not been required for many active vaccines to function, the antigenic repertoire available for testing should not be limited to virulence factors. With expansion of our fundamental understanding of the immunology of fungal infections, the biggest barrier to development of fungal vaccines is the lack of available capital to translate discoveries made at the bench into biological agents used at the bedside. Continued education on the importance and feasibility of vaccination for such infections, combined with continued development of vaccine antigens and adjuvants, is necessary.

Identifiers

PMID21876719
PMCPMC3155210
OpenAlexW1969442068

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