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ReviewTrends in microbiology2018

Transmissible Viral Vaccines.

James J Bull, Mark W Smithson, Scott L Nuismer

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Review in Trends in microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39citing papers in PubMed
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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

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

39 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. A non-transmissible live attenuated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2023
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  9. Inferring the disruption of rabies circulation in vampire bat populations using a betaherpesvirus-vectored transmissible vaccine.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  12. Quantifying the effectiveness of betaherpesvirus-vectored transmissible vaccines.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

James J BullDepartment of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712 USA. Electronic address: bull@utexas.edu.
Mark W SmithsonSchool of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99164-4236, USA.
Scott L NuismerDepartment of Biological Sciences, Department of Mathematics, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, 83844, USA. Electronic address: snuismer@uidaho.edu.

Funding

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: A MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF TRANSMISSIBLE VACCINES R01GM122079 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO · PI SCOTT L NUISMER · 2016 to 2026
$2.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM122079
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genetic engineering now enables the design of live viral vaccines that are potentially transmissible. Some designs merely modify a single viral genome to improve on the age-old method of attenuation whereas other designs create chimeras of viral genomes. Transmission has the benefit of increasing herd immunity above that achieved by direct vaccination alone but also increases the opportunity for vaccine evolution, which typically undermines vaccine utility. Different designs have different epidemiological consequences but also experience different evolution. Approaches that integrate vaccine engineering with an understanding of evolution and epidemiology will reap the greatest benefit from vaccine transmission.

Indexed as

VaccinationCommunicable Disease ControlCross ReactionsDisease EradicationEpidemiologyGenetic EngineeringHumansImmunity, HerdModels, TheoreticalVaccines, AttenuatedVaccines, SyntheticViral VaccinesVirusesVaccines, AttenuatedVaccines, SyntheticViral Vaccinesepidemiologygenome engineeringherd immunitypopulation dynamicsvaccine evolution

Identifiers

PMID29033339
PMCPMC5777272

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