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Need of cost-effective vaccines in developing countries: What plant biotechnology can offer?

Mohammad Tahir Waheed, Muhammad Sameeullah, Faheem Ahmed Khan, Tahira Syed, Manzoor Ilahi, Johanna Gottschamel, Andreas Günter Lössl

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Review in SpringerPlus, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Edible Vaccines: Promises and Challenges.Molecular biotechnology · 2020
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  9. Monoclonal Antibodies B38 and H4 Produced inFrontiers in plant science · 2020
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  13. Therapeutic vaccines for high-risk HPV-associated diseases.Papillomavirus research (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 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

7 authors.

Mohammad Tahir WaheedDepartment of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, 45320 Pakistan.
Muhammad SameeullahDepartment of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Golkoy Campus, 14280 Bolu, Turkey.
Faheem Ahmed KhanMolecular Biotechnology Laboratory for Triticeae Crops, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.
Tahira SyedDepartment of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, 45320 Pakistan.
Manzoor IlahiDepartment of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, 45320 Pakistan.
Johanna GottschamelNIBIO - Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Ås, Norway.
Andreas Günter LösslDepartment of Applied Plant Sciences and Plant Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Konrad Lorenz Straße 24, 3430 Tulln an der Donau, Austria ; AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Donau-City-Straße 1, 1220 Vienna, Austria.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To treat current infectious diseases, different therapies are used that include drugs or vaccines or both. Currently, the world is facing an increasing problem of drug resistance from many pathogenic microorganisms. In majority of cases, when vaccines are used, formulations consist of live attenuated microorganisms. This poses an additional risk of infection in immunocompromised patients and people suffering from malnutrition in developing countries. Therefore, there is need to improve drug therapy as well as to develop next generation vaccines, in particular against infectious diseases with highest mortality rates. For patients in developing countries, costs related to treatments are one of the major hurdles to reduce the disease burden. In many cases, use of prophylactic vaccines can help to control the incidence of infectious diseases. In the present review, we describe some infectious diseases with high impact on health of people in low and middle income countries. We discuss the prospects of plants as alternative platform for the development of next-generation subunit vaccines that can be a cost-effective source for mass immunization of people in developing countries.

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AdjuvantsBiopharmaceuticalsDrug resistant microorganismsInfectious diseasesNext generation vaccinesPlant-based vaccines

Identifiers

PMID26839758
PMCPMC4722051

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