Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27636098›Full record

ReviewHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2017

From discovery to licensure, the Adjuvant System story.

Nathalie Garçon, Alberta Di Pasquale

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Review in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 116 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
116citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

116 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  7. Introduction to the Immune System.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  13. A novel cationic liposome-formulated toll like receptor (TLR) 7/8 agonist enhances the efficacy of a vaccine against fentanyl toxicity.Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2025
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  14. Leaf Saponins ofPharmaceutics · 2025
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  19. The recent advances in vaccine adjuvants.Frontiers in immunology · 2025
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56 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

2 authors.

Nathalie Garçona Bioaster , Lyon , France.
Alberta Di Pasqualeb GSK Vaccines , Wavre , Belgium.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adjuvants are substances added to vaccines to improve their immunogenicity. Used for more than 80 years, aluminum, the first adjuvant in human vaccines, proved insufficient to develop vaccines that could protect against new challenging pathogens such as HIV and malaria. New adjuvants and new combinations of adjuvants (Adjuvant Systems) have opened the door to the delivery of improved and new vaccines against re-emerging and difficult pathogens. Adjuvant Systems concept started through serendipity. The access to new developments in technology, microbiology and immunology have been instrumental for the dicephering of what they do and how they do it. This knowledge opens the door to more rational vaccine design with implications for developing new and better vaccines.

Indexed as

Adjuvants, ImmunologicDrug ApprovalDrug DiscoveryLicensureAnimalsHumansAdjuvants, Immunologicadaptive immune responseadjuvantadjuvanted vaccineadjuvant systeminnate immune responsevaccine development

Identifiers

PMID27636098
PMCPMC5287309

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