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ArticleScientific reports2017

Boosting with recombinant MVA expressing M. tuberculosis α-crystallin antigen augments the protection imparted by BCG against tuberculosis in guinea pigs.

Prachi Nangpal, Ritika Kar Bahal, Anil K Tyagi

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 41% of its field
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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Model systems to studyFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025
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  5. Antibodies as clinical tools for tuberculosis.Frontiers in immunology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Prachi NangpalDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Delhi South Campus, Benito Juarez Road, New Delhi, India.
Ritika Kar BahalDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Delhi South Campus, Benito Juarez Road, New Delhi, India.
Anil K TyagiDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Delhi South Campus, Benito Juarez Road, New Delhi, India. aniltyagi@south.du.ac.in.
University of Delhi · INGuru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the major causes of mortality all over the globe. BCG, the only vaccine available against this disease has been successful in preventing the severe forms of childhood TB. However, the unsatisfactory performance of BCG in controlling the adult pulmonary tuberculosis has made the development of an effective vaccine against M. tuberculosis a prime objective of the TB research. In this study, a genetically stable, marker-free recombinant MVA expressing α-crystallin of M. tuberculosis (rMVA.acr) was generated which was further evaluated for its ability to impart protection as a booster vaccine against tuberculosis in a heterologous prime boost approach. Our results demonstrated that intradermal delivery of rMVA.acr was able to efficiently boost the BCG induced protection against M. tuberculosis infection in guinea pigs by significantly reducing the pulmonary bacillary load (1.27 log

Indexed as

alpha-CrystallinsAnimalsAntigens, BacterialBCG VaccineCytokinesDisease Models, AnimalFemaleGuinea PigsImmunization, SecondaryMycobacterium tuberculosisRecombinant ProteinsTuberculosis, PulmonaryTuberculosis VaccinesVaccines, DNAViral Vaccinesalpha-CrystallinsAntigens, BacterialBCG VaccineCytokinesMVA vaccineRecombinant ProteinsTuberculosis VaccinesVaccines, DNAViral Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID29230061
PMCPMC5725557
OpenAlexW2772800434

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