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ReviewNature medicine2013

Immune mechanisms in malaria: new insights in vaccine development.

Eleanor M Riley, V Ann Stewart

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Review in Nature medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 109 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
109citing papers in PubMed
31.0field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

109 citing papers in PubMed, 200 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Mechanism of Immune Evasion in Mosquito-Borne Diseases.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  18. NaturalMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  19. Differential Effect of Extracellular Vesicles Derived fromInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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49 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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.

Eleanor M RileyDepartment of Immunology and Infection, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. eleanor.riley@lshtm.ac.uk
V Ann Stewart
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences · USUniversity of London · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early data emerging from the first phase 3 trial of a malaria vaccine are raising hopes that a licensed vaccine will soon be available for use in endemic countries, but given the relatively low efficacy of the vaccine, this needs to be seen as a major step forward on the road to a malaria vaccine rather than as arrival at the final destination. The focus for vaccine developers now moves to the next generation of malaria vaccines, but it is not yet clear what characteristics these new vaccines should have or how they can be evaluated. Here we briefly review the epidemiological and immunological requirements for malaria vaccines and the recent history of malaria vaccine development and then put forward a manifesto for future research in this area. We argue that rational design of more effective malaria vaccines will be accelerated by a better understanding of the immune effector mechanisms involved in parasite regulation, control and elimination.

Indexed as

AnimalsClinical Trials as TopicGenetic VariationHumansLife Cycle StagesMalariaMalaria VaccinesPlasmodiumT-LymphocytesVaccinationMalaria Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID23389617
OpenAlexW2054621277

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