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ReviewExpert opinion on biological therapy2018

From bench to almost bedside: the long road to a licensed Ebola virus vaccine.

Gary Wong, Emelissa J Mendoza, Francis A Plummer, George F Gao, Gary P Kobinger, Xiangguo Qiu

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Review in Expert opinion on biological therapy, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
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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

23 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. [Platform technologies in vaccine development].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2025
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  13. Pathogen Lists Do Not Tell Us What We Need to Do.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2019
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  15. Thermostable Ebola virus vaccine formulations lyophilized in the presence of aluminum hydroxide.European journal of pharmaceutics and biopharmaceutics : official journal of Arbeitsgemeinschaft fur Pharmazeutische Verfahrenstechnik e.V · 2019
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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

6 authors.

Gary Wonga Guangdong Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Immunity , Shenzhen Third People's Hospital , Shenzhen , China.
Emelissa J Mendozac National Microbiology Laboratory , Public Health Agency of Canada , Winnipeg , MB , Canada.
Francis A Plummerd Department of Medical Microbiology , University of Manitoba , Winnipeg , MB , Canada.
George F Gaoa Guangdong Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Immunity , Shenzhen Third People's Hospital , Shenzhen , China.
Gary P Kobingerc National Microbiology Laboratory , Public Health Agency of Canada , Winnipeg , MB , Canada.
Xiangguo Qiuc National Microbiology Laboratory , Public Health Agency of Canada , Winnipeg , MB , Canada.

Funding

Mechanistic Virology CoreU19AI109762 · NIAID · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI SAPHIRE, ERICA OLLMANN · 2014 to 2018
$29.6M
CIHR IER-143487NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI109762
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThe Ebola virus (EBOV) disease epidemic during 2014-16 in West Africa has accelerated the clinical development of several vaccine candidates that have demonstrated efficacy in the gold standard nonhuman primate (NHP) model, namely cynomolgus macaques. AREAS COVERED: This review discusses the pre-clinical research and if available, clinical evaluation of the currently available EBOV vaccine candidates, while emphasizing the translatability of pre-clinical data generated in the NHP model to clinical data in humans. EXPERT OPINION: Despite the existence of many successful EBOV vaccine candidates in the pre-clinical stages, only two platforms became the focus of Phase 2/3 efficacy trials in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea near the peak of the epidemic: the Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV)-vectored vaccine and the chimpanzee adenovirus type 3 (ChAd3)-vectored vaccine. The results of three distinct clinical trials involving these candidates may soon pave the way for a licensed, safe and efficacious EBOV vaccine to help combat future epidemics.

Indexed as

AnimalsDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalEbola VaccinesEbolavirusGenetic VectorsHemorrhagic Fever, EbolaHumansMacaca fascicularisVaccines, DNAVaccines, Virus-Like ParticleEbola VaccinesVaccines, DNAVaccines, Virus-Like ParticleClinical trialsebola virusnonhuman primatesvaccines

Identifiers

PMID29148858
PMCPMC5841470

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