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ReviewBiologics : targets & therapy2017

Development of a potent invigorator of immune responses endowed with both preventive and therapeutic properties.

Gursaran P Talwar, Jagdish C Gupta, Abu S Mustafa, Hemanta K Kar, Kiran Katoch, Shreemanta K Parida, Prabhakara P Reddi, Niyaz Ahmed, Vikram Saini, Somesh Gupta

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In one paragraph

Review in Biologics : targets & therapy, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 27 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

10 authors at 8 institutions in 4 countries.

Gursaran P TalwarTalwar Research Foundation, New Delhi, India.
Jagdish C GuptaTalwar Research Foundation, New Delhi, India.
Abu S MustafaDepartment of Microbiology, Kuwait University, Kuwait.
Hemanta K KarDepartment of Dermatology, Paras Hospital, Gurgaon.
Kiran KatochNational JALMA Institute of Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Agra, India.
Shreemanta K ParidaGerman Centre of Infection, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany.
Prabhakara P ReddiDepartment of Comparative Biosciences, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, IL, USA.
Niyaz AhmedDepartment of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India.
Vikram SainiDepartment of Microbiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Somesh GuptaDepartment of Dermatology and Venereology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences · INJustus-Liebig-Universität Gießen · DEKuwait University · KWNational JALMA Institute for Leprosy & Other Mycobacterial Diseases · INParas Hospitals · INUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham · USUniversity of Hyderabad · INUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article reviews briefly the making of an immunoprophylactic-cum-immunotherapeutic vaccine against leprosy. The vaccine is based on cultivable, heat-killed atypical mycobacteria, whose gene sequence is now known. It has been named

Indexed as

adjuvantanogenital wartsleprosymyelomatuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID28496303
PMCPMC5422320
OpenAlexW2611130744

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