Evidence map›Paper›PMID 23787486›Full record

ArticleHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2013

Protective-antigen (PA) based anthrax vaccines confer protection against inhalation anthrax by precluding the establishment of a systemic infection.

Tod J Merkel, Pin-Yu Perera, Gloria M Lee, Anita Verma, Toyoko Hiroi, Hiroyuki Yokote, Thomas A Waldmann, Liyanage P Perera

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. A Safe and Versatile Minicell Platform Derived fromJournal of microbiology and biotechnology · 2025
    Article
  2. A Nasal Vaccine Displaying Anthrax Antigen on the Surface ofJournal of microbiology and biotechnology · 2025
    Article
  3. Review
  4. Pathogenicity and Genomic Characterization of a Novel Genospecies,International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
    Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
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

8 authors.

Tod J MerkelCenter for Biologics Evaluation and Research; Food and Drug Administration; Bethesda, MD USA.
Pin-Yu Perera
Gloria M Lee
Anita Verma
Toyoko Hiroi
Hiroyuki Yokote
Thomas A Waldmann
Liyanage P Perera

Funding

Interleukin-15 Production for Treatment of Patients with Metastatic MalignancyZIBBC010906 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI WALDMANN, THOMAS · 2009 to 2022
$29.3M
IL-2:IL-15 : implications for cancer therapy (Investigator -Initiated Project)ZIASC004002 · NCI · DIVISION OF CLINICAL SCIENCES - NCI · PI WALDMANN, THOMAS · 2009 to 2022
$22.9M
CORE--BABOON RESEARCH RESOURCE PROGRAMP40RR012317 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR · PI WHITE, GARY L · 1998 to 2011
$13.0M
Baboon Research Resource ProgramP40OD010988 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR · PI BANKS, RON E · 2012 to 2018
$9.0M
Intramural NIH HHSNCRR NIH HHS P40 RR012317NIH HHS P40 OD010988
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An intense effort has been launched to develop improved anthrax vaccines that confer rapid, long lasting protection preferably with an extended stability profile amenable for stockpiling. Protective antigen (PA)-based vaccines are most favored as immune responses directed against PA are singularly protective, although the actual protective mechanism remains to be unraveled. Herein we show that contrary to the prevailing view, an efficacious PA-based vaccine confers protection against inhalation anthrax by preventing the establishment of a toxin-releasing systemic infection. Equally importantly, antibodies measured by the in vitro lethal toxin neutralization activity assay (TNA) that is considered as a reliable correlate of protection, especially for PA protein-based vaccines adjuvanted with aluminum salts appear to be not absolutely essential for this protective immune response.

Indexed as

AnimalsAnthraxAnthrax VaccinesAntibodies, BacterialAntibodies, NeutralizingAntigens, BacterialBacterial ToxinsFemaleHumansRabbitsRespiratory Tract Infectionsanthrax toxinAnthrax VaccinesAntibodies, BacterialAntibodies, NeutralizingAntigens, BacterialBacterial ToxinsanthraxbioluminescenceIL-15protective antigenvaccinesvaccinia

Identifiers

PMID23787486
PMCPMC3906346

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.