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ReviewCurrent opinion in virology2016

Viral evasion and challenges of hepatitis C virus vaccine development.

Brian G Pierce, Zhen-Yong Keck, Steven Kh Foung

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Review in Current opinion in virology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
29citing papers in PubMed
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

29 citing papers in PubMed, 46 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Brian G PierceUniversity of Maryland Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. Electronic address: pierce@umd.edu.
Zhen-Yong KeckDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Steven Kh FoungDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Electronic address: sfoung@stanford.edu.
Stanford University · USUniversity of Maryland, College Park · US

Funding

Project 2 - FranceU19AI123862 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI FOUNG, STEVEN · 2016 to 2020
$3.9M
Structure-based HCV vaccine designR21AI126582 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI FOUNG, STEVEN, MARIUZZA, ROY A · 2016 to 2017
$440k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI126582NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI123862
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major global disease burden, often leading to chronic liver diseases, cirrhosis, cancer, and death in those infected. Despite the recent approval of antiviral therapeutics, a preventative vaccine is recognized as the most effective means to control HCV globally, particularly in at-risk and developing country populations. Here we describe the efforts and challenges related to the development of an HCV vaccine, which after decades of research have not been successful. Viral sequence variability poses a major challenge, yet recent research has provided unprecedented views of the atomic structure of HCV epitopes and immune recognition by antibodies and T cell receptors. This, coupled with insights from deep sequencing, robust neutralization assays, and other technological advances, is spurring research toward rationally HCV designed vaccines that preferentially elicit responses toward conserved epitopes of interest that are associated with viral neutralization and clearance.

Indexed as

Genetic VariationDrug DiscoveryHepacivirusHumansViral VaccinesViral Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID27657659
PMCPMC5102773
OpenAlexW2523365393

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