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ReviewExpert review of vaccines2016

Recent developments in the understanding and use of anthrax vaccine adsorbed: achieving more with less.

Jarad M Schiffer, Michael M McNeil, Conrad P Quinn

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Review in Expert review of vaccines, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
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

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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Human anthrax vaccines: Current status and future prospects.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2025
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  4. Biodefence research two decades on: worth the investment?The Lancet. Infectious diseases · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jarad M Schiffera MPIR Laboratory, Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) , Atlanta , GA , USA.
Michael M McNeilb Immunization Safety Office, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion , National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases , Atlanta , GA , USA.
Conrad P Quinnc Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial Diseases , National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) , Atlanta , GA , USA.
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases · USNational Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases · US

Funding

Intramural CDC HHS CC999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed (AVA, BioThrax™) is the only Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved vaccine for the prevention of anthrax in humans. Recent improvements in pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use of AVA include intramuscular (IM) administration and simplification of the priming series to three doses over 6 months. Administration IM markedly reduced the frequency, severity and duration of injection site reactions. Refinement of animal models for inhalation anthrax, identification of immune correlates of protection and cross-species modeling have created opportunities for reductions in the PrEP booster schedule and were pivotal in FDA approval of a post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) indication. Clinical and nonclinical studies of accelerated PEP schedules and divided doses may provide prospects for shortening the PEP antimicrobial treatment period. These data may assist in determining feasibility of expanded coverage in a large-scale emergency when vaccine demand may exceed availability. Enhancements to the AVA formulation may broaden the vaccine's PEP application.

Indexed as

AnimalsAnthraxAnthrax VaccinesHumansImmunization ScheduleInjections, IntramuscularModels, AnimalPost-Exposure ProphylaxisPre-Exposure ProphylaxisAnthrax VaccinesAnthraxantibody formationBacillus anthracisBioThraxcorrelates of protectionhumansnonhuman primatepost-exposure prophylaxispre-exposure prophylaxisvaccines

Identifiers

PMID26942655
PMCPMC9041331
OpenAlexW2289688270

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