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ReviewFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology2013

Host-Brucella interactions and the Brucella genome as tools for subunit antigen discovery and immunization against brucellosis.

Gabriel Gomez, Leslie G Adams, Allison Rice-Ficht, Thomas A Ficht

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Review in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

  1. Pooled it
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  10. Prevalence and Genomic Characterization ofAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020
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  11. Brucella - Virulence Factors, Pathogenesis and Treatment.Polish journal of microbiology · 2018
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  12. Protective role ofVeterinary world · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Gabriel GomezDepartment of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843, USA. ggomez@cvm.tamu.edu
Leslie G Adams
Allison Rice-Ficht
Thomas A Ficht

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vaccination is the most important approach to counteract infectious diseases. Thus, the development of new and improved vaccines for existing, emerging, and re-emerging diseases is an area of great interest to the scientific community and general public. Traditional approaches to subunit antigen discovery and vaccine development lack consideration for the critical aspects of public safety and activation of relevant protective host immunity. The availability of genomic sequences for pathogenic Brucella spp. and their hosts have led to development of systems-wide analytical tools that have provided a better understanding of host and pathogen physiology while also beginning to unravel the intricacies at the host-pathogen interface. Advances in pathogen biology, host immunology, and host-agent interactions have the potential to serve as a platform for the design and implementation of better-targeted antigen discovery approaches. With emphasis on Brucella spp., we probe the biological aspects of host and pathogen that merit consideration in the targeted design of subunit antigen discovery and vaccine development.

Indexed as

Genome, BacterialHost-Pathogen InteractionsAnimalsAntigens, BacterialBacterial VaccinesBrucellaBrucellosisDrug DiscoveryGenomicsHumansVaccines, SubunitAntigens, BacterialBacterial VaccinesVaccines, Subunitantigen discoveryBrucellosisintracellular pathogensreverse vaccinologysubunit vaccinevaccines

Identifiers

PMID23720712
PMCPMC3655278

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