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ReviewExpert review of vaccines2012

Chikungunya virus and prospects for a vaccine.

Scott C Weaver, Jorge E Osorio, Jill A Livengood, Rubing Chen, Dan T Stinchcomb

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In one paragraph

Review in Expert review of vaccines, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 114 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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114citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

114 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Prevalence of chronic comorbidities in chikungunya: A systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2018
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  11. Infectomics of Chikungunya Virus: Roles Played by Host Factors.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2025
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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

5 authors.

Scott C WeaverInstitute for Human Infections and Immunity, Sealy Center for Vaccine Development and Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA. sweaver@utmb.edu
Jorge E Osorio
Jill A Livengood
Rubing Chen
Dan T Stinchcomb

Funding

WRCE Nonhuman Primate CoreU54AI057156 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BR GALVESTON · PI WALKER, DAVID H · 2003 to 2013
$102.6M
Novel Vaccine Technology for ChikungunyaR01AI093491 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · PI WEAVER, SCOTT C · 2011 to 2014
$3.2M
Mechanisms of sylvatic dengue emergenceR01AI069145 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · PI WEAVER, SCOTT C · 2008 to 2011
$2.5M
Chimeric Alphavirus Vaccines for ChikungunyaU01AI082202 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · PI WEAVER, SCOTT C · 2009 to 2010
$1.9M
NIAID NIH HHS AI069145NIAID NIH HHS AI082202NIAID NIH HHS AI093491NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI069145NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI093491NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI082202NIAID NIH HHS U54 AI057156PHS HHS U54 AIO57156
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In 2004, chikungunya virus (CHIKV) re-emerged from East Africa to cause devastating epidemics of debilitating and often chronic arthralgia that have affected millions of people in the Indian Ocean Basin and Asia. More limited epidemics initiated by travelers subsequently occurred in Italy and France, as well as human cases exported to most regions of the world, including the Americas where CHIKV could become endemic. Because CHIKV circulates during epidemics in an urban mosquito-human cycle, control of transmission relies on mosquito abatement, which is rarely effective. Furthermore, there is no antiviral treatment for CHIKV infection and no licensed vaccine to prevent disease. Here, we discuss the challenges to the development of a safe, effective and affordable chikungunya vaccine and recent progress toward this goal.

Indexed as

Alphavirus InfectionsChikungunya FeverChikungunya virusDrug DiscoveryHumansViral VaccinesViral Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID23151166
PMCPMC3562718

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