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ReviewHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2015

Safety assessment of adjuvanted vaccines: Methodological considerations.

Fernanda Tavares Da Silva, Alberta Di Pasquale, Juan P Yarzabal, Nathalie Garçon

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Review in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 18% 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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. Vaccine hesitancy : Report of a student study group.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2020
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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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Fernanda Tavares Da Silvaa GSK Vaccines ; Wavre , Belgium.
Alberta Di Pasquale
Juan P Yarzabal
Nathalie Garçon
BIOASTER · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adjuvants mainly interact with the innate immune response and are used to enhance the quantity and quality of the downstream adaptive immune response to vaccine antigens. Establishing the safety of a new adjuvant-antigen combination is achieved through rigorous evaluation that begins in the laboratory, and that continues throughout the vaccine life-cycle. The strategy for the evaluation of safety pre-licensure is guided by the disease profile, vaccine indication, and target population, and it is also influenced by available regulatory guidelines. In order to allow meaningful interpretation of clinical data, clinical program methodology should be optimized and standardized, making best use of all available data sources. Post-licensure safety activities are directed by field experience accumulated pre- and post-licensure clinical trial data and spontaneous adverse event reports. Continued evolution of safety evaluation processes that keep pace with advances in vaccine technology and updated communication of the benefit-risk profile is necessary to maintain public confidence in vaccines.

Indexed as

Adjuvants, ImmunologicAnimalsHumansPapillomavirus VaccinesProduct Surveillance, PostmarketingRisk AssessmentSafetyVaccinesAdjuvants, ImmunologicPapillomavirus VaccinesVaccinesadjuvantadjuvant systemAS, Adjuvant SystemsEMA, European Medicines AgencyFDA, United States Food and Drug AdministrationHPV, human papillomavirussafetysurveillanceUS, United StatesvaccineWHO, World Health Organization

Identifiers

PMID26029975
PMCPMC4514270
OpenAlexW1836433122

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