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ReviewThe Journal of infectious diseases2011

Recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus-based vaccines against Ebola and Marburg virus infections.

Thomas W Geisbert, Heinz Feldmann

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Review in The Journal of infectious diseases, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 127 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
127citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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

127 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 225 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Phase 1 Trials of rVSV Ebola Vaccine in Africa and Europe.The New England journal of medicine · 2016
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  10. [Platform technologies in vaccine development].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2025
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  17. Abortive and productive infection of CNS cell types following in vivo delivery of VSV.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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67 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Thomas W GeisbertGalveston National Laboratory, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd., Galveston, TX 77550-0610, USA. tom.geisbert@utmb.edu
Heinz Feldmann
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston · USUniversity of Manitoba · CA

Funding

CAP: Trivalent Filovirus Vaccine for Pre- and Post-Exposure VaccinationZIAAI001163 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI FELDMANN, HEINRICH · 2012 to 2019
$3.9M
Multivalent Vaccine for Viral Hemorrhagic FeverU01AI082197 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · PI GEISBERT, THOMAS WILLIAM · 2009 to 2010
$1.9M
Intramural NIH HHSNIAID NIH HHS U01 AI082197
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The filoviruses, Marburg virus and Ebola virus, cause severe hemorrhagic fever with a high mortality rate in humans and nonhuman primates. Among the most-promising filovirus vaccines under development is a system based on recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (rVSV) that expresses a single filovirus glycoprotein (GP) in place of the VSV glycoprotein (G). Importantly, a single injection of blended rVSV-based filovirus vaccines was shown to completely protect nonhuman primates against Marburg virus and 3 different species of Ebola virus. These rVSV-based vaccines have also shown utility when administered as a postexposure treatment against filovirus infections, and a rVSV-based Ebola virus vaccine was recently used to treat a potential laboratory exposure. Here, we review the history of rVSV-based vaccines and pivotal animal studies showing their utility in combating Ebola and Marburg virus infections.

Indexed as

Viral VaccinesAnimalsEbolavirusHemorrhagic Fever, EbolaMarburgvirusMarburg Virus DiseaseVaccines, SyntheticVesiculovirusVaccines, SyntheticViral Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID21987744
PMCPMC3218670
OpenAlexW2124603089

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