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ReviewViruses2014

Challenges in the design of a T cell vaccine in the context of HIV-1 diversity.

Marcel Tongo, Wendy A Burgers

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Review in Viruses, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. HIV Vaccination: A Roadmap among Advancements and Concerns.International journal of molecular sciences · 2018
    Review
  4. Review
  5. Review
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  7. Article
  8. Increased frequencies of CD8Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2016
    Article
  9. Article
  10. New prospects for a preventive HIV-1 vaccine.Journal of virus eradication · 2015
    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

2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Marcel TongoInstitute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Division of Medical Virology, University of Cape Town, Anzio Road, Observatory 7925, Cape Town, South Africa. TNGAIM001@myuct.ac.za.
Wendy A BurgersInstitute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Division of Medical Virology, University of Cape Town, Anzio Road, Observatory 7925, Cape Town, South Africa. wendy.burgers@uct.ac.za.
University of Cape Town · ZA

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The extraordinary variability of HIV-1 poses a major obstacle to vaccine development. The effectiveness of a vaccine is likely to vary dramatically in different populations infected with different HIV-1 subtypes, unless innovative vaccine immunogens are developed to protect against the range of HIV-1 diversity. Immunogen design for stimulating neutralizing antibody responses focuses on "breadth" - the targeting of a handful of highly conserved neutralizing determinants on the HIV-1 Envelope protein that can recognize the majority of viruses across all HIV-1 subtypes. An effective vaccine will likely require the generation of both broadly cross-neutralizing antibodies and non-neutralizing antibodies, as well as broadly cross-reactive T cells. Several approaches have been taken to design such broadly-reactive and cross-protective T cell immunogens. Artificial sequences have been designed that reduce the genetic distance between a vaccine strain and contemporary circulating viruses; "mosaic" immunogens extend this concept to contain multiple potential T cell epitope (PTE) variants; and further efforts attempt to focus T cell immunity on highly conserved regions of the HIV-1 genome. Thus far, a number of pre-clinical and early clinical studies have been performed assessing these new immunogens. In this review, the potential use of these new immunogens is explored.

Indexed as

AIDS VaccinesAntibodies, NeutralizingCross ReactionsGene Products, envGenetic VariationHIV-1HIV AntibodiesHIV AntigensHIV InfectionsHumansImmunity, CellularT-LymphocytesAIDS VaccinesAntibodies, NeutralizingGene Products, envHIV AntibodiesHIV Antigens

Identifiers

PMID25341662
PMCPMC4213573
OpenAlexW2117107908

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