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ReviewExpert review of vaccines2015

Current efforts and future prospects in the development of live mycobacteria as vaccines.

Tony W Ng, Noemí A Saavedra-Ávila, Steven C Kennedy, Leandro J Carreño, Steven A Porcelli

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Review in Expert review of vaccines, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 20% 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

5 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Tony W Nga 1 Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Microbiology & Immunology, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
Noemí A Saavedra-Ávilaa 1 Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Microbiology & Immunology, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
Steven C Kennedya 1 Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Microbiology & Immunology, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
Leandro J Carreñoa 1 Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Microbiology & Immunology, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
Steven A Porcellia 1 Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Microbiology & Immunology, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · US

Funding

"The Tuberculous Granuloma"P01AI063537 · NIAID · ALBERT EINSTEIN COL OF MED YESHIVA UNIV · PI JACOBS, WILLIAM ROBERT · 2005 to 2015
$15.7M
Harnessing NKT Cell Activation by GlycolipidsR01GM111849 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT STORRS · PI HOWELL, AMY · 2019 to 2022
$2.1M
Construction of safe and effective live tuberculosis vaccinesR01AI093649 · NIAID · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI PORCELLI, STEVEN A · 2011 to 2015
$2.1M
Harnessing NKT Cell Activation by GlycolipidsU01GM111849 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT STORRS · PI HOWELL, AMY · 2014 to 2017
$1.9M
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of more effective vaccines against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) remains a major goal in the effort to reduce the enormous global burden of disease caused by this pathogen. Whole-cell vaccines based on live mycobacteria with attenuated virulence represent an appealing approach, providing broad antigen exposure and intrinsic adjuvant properties to prime durable immune responses. However, designing vaccine strains with an optimal balance between attenuation and immunogenicity has proven to be extremely challenging. Recent basic and clinical research efforts have broadened our understanding of Mtb pathogenesis and created numerous new vaccine candidates that have been designed to overcome different aspects of immune evasion by Mtb. In this review, we provide an overview of the current efforts to create improved vaccines against tuberculosis based on modifications of live attenuated mycobacteria. In addition, we discuss the use of such vaccine strains as vectors for stimulating protective immunity against other infectious diseases and cancers.

Indexed as

Drug DiscoveryHumansMycobacterium tuberculosisTuberculosisTuberculosis VaccinesVaccines, AttenuatedTuberculosis VaccinesVaccines, Attenuatedattenuationautophagyauxotrophimmune evasionlive vaccinemycobacterial antigensMycobacterium tuberculosisphagosomepro-apoptotic

Identifiers

PMID26366616
PMCPMC4888961
OpenAlexW1899321525

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