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ReviewImmunological reviews2015

Tuberculosis vaccines: barriers and prospects on the quest for a transformative tool.

Christopher L Karp, Christopher B Wilson, Lynda M Stuart

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Review in Immunological reviews, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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34citing papers in PubMed
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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

34 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Latently and uninfected healthcare workers exposed to TB make protective antibodies againstProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
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  11. Reconsidering the Optimal Immune Response toAmerican journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2020
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  13. Tuberculosis susceptibility and protection in children.The Lancet. Infectious diseases · 2019
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  17. Antibodies and tuberculosis: finally coming of age?Nature reviews. Immunology · 2018
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  19. Journal of immunology research · 2018
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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

3 authors.

Christopher L KarpDiscovery and Translational Sciences, Global Health, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA.
Christopher B Wilson
Lynda M Stuart

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The road to a more efficacious vaccine that could be a truly transformative tool for decreasing tuberculosis morbidity and mortality, along with Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission, is quite daunting. Despite this, there are reasons for optimism. Abetted by better conceptual clarity, clear acknowledgment of the degree of our current immunobiological ignorance, the availability of powerful new tools for dissecting the immunopathogenesis of human tuberculosis, the generation of more creative diversity in tuberculosis vaccine concepts, the development of better fit-for-purpose animal models, and the potential of more pragmatic approaches to the clinical testing of vaccine candidates, the field has promise for delivering novel tools for dealing with this worldwide scourge of poverty.

Indexed as

AnimalsDisease Models, AnimalHumansMycobacterium tuberculosisTuberculosisTuberculosis VaccinesVaccines, SubunitTuberculosis VaccinesVaccines, SubunitimmunopathogenesisMycobacterium tuberculosisvaccine

Identifiers

PMID25703572
PMCPMC4368410

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