Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22564747›Full record

ReviewCurrent opinion in microbiology2012

Recent progress in vaccines against fungal diseases.

Antonio Cassone, Arturo Casadevall

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In one paragraph

Review in Current opinion in microbiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
39citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.1field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 91 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Guideline
  2. Article
  3. Antifungal Innate Immunity.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025
    Review
  4. Article
  5. Review
  6. Vaccines against candidiasis: Status, challenges and emerging opportunity.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022
    Review
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Review
  11. Advances in Fungal Peptide Vaccines.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
    Review
  12. Review
  13. Review
  14. Review
  15. Immunomodulation as a Therapy forJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018
    Review
  16. Article
  17. Article
  18. Review
  19. Mitigating amphibian chytridiomycoses in nature.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016
    Review
  20. 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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Antonio CassoneDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Arturo Casadevall
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · USIstituto Superiore di Sanità · IT

Funding

Synergy of Host Defense Mechanisms in the LungR01HL059842 · NHLBI · YESHIVA UNIVERSITY · PI CASADEVALL, ARTURO · 1997 to 2023
$7.4M
Biology of Fungal MelaninR01AI052733 · NIAID · YESHIVA UNIVERSITY · PI CASADEVALL, ARTURO · 2003 to 2019
$6.6M
PROTECTIVE ANTIBODIES FOR CRYPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONSR01AI033774 · NIAID · YESHIVA UNIVERSITY · PI CASADEVALL, ARTURO · 1994 to 2014
$5.6M
Molecular Characterization of C. neoformans AntibodiesR37AI033142 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI CASADEVALL, ARTURO · 2007 to 2016
$3.9M
MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF C NEOFORMANS ANTIBODIESR01AI033142 · NIAID · YESHIVA UNIVERSITY · PI CASADEVALL, ARTURO · 1994 to 2006
$1.7M
NHLBI NIH HHS 5R01HL059842NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL059842NIAID NIH HHS 5R01AI033774NIAID NIH HHS 5R01AI052733NIAID NIH HHS 5R37AI033142NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI033142NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI033774NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI052733NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI033142
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diseases caused by fungi are increasingly impacting the health of the human population and now account for a large fraction of infectious disease complications in individuals with impaired immunity or breached tissue defenses. Antifungal therapy is often of limited effectiveness in these patients, resulting into treatment failures, chronic infections and unacceptable rates of mortality, morbidity and their associated costs. Consequently there is a real medical need for new treatments and preventive measures to combat fungal diseases and, toward this goal, safe and efficacious vaccines would constitute major progress. After decades of complacency and neglect of this critically important field of research, remarkable progress has been made in recent years. A number of highly immunogenic and protective vaccine formulations in preclinical setting have been developed, and at least two have undergone Phase 1 clinical trials as preventive and/or therapeutic tools against candidiasis.

Indexed as

Fungal VaccinesAspergillosisCandidiasis, VulvovaginalCryptococcosisFemaleFungiHumansMycosesFungal Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID22564747
PMCPMC3424352
OpenAlexW2166646154

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