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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2018

Neonatal Immunization: Rationale, Current State, and Future Prospects.

Elizabeth Whittaker, David Goldblatt, Peter McIntyre, Ofer Levy

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Precision adjuvants for pediatric vaccines.Science translational medicine · 2024
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  6. Immunomodulation of Antibody Glycosylation through the Placental Transfer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  7. The macrophage infectivity potentiator ofFrontiers 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

4 authors.

Elizabeth WhittakerCentre for International Child Health, Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
David GoldblattImmunobiology Section, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH), London, United Kingdom.
Peter McIntyreNational Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, Kids Research, Sydney Children's Hospital Network and University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Ofer LevyPrecision Vaccines Program, Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.

Funding

Transcriptomics to define biomarkers of neonatal vaccine immunogenicityU19AI118608 · NIAID · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI LEVY, OFER · 2017 to 2021
$24.7M
Dissecting the mechanism of age-specific adjuvant synergy in vitro and in vivoU01AI124284 · NIAID · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI LEVY, OFER · 2016 to 2020
$2.9M
Modeling distinct neonatal purine metabolism to inform vaccine developmentR01AI100135 · NIAID · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI LEVY, OFER · 2012 to 2016
$2.5M
NIAID NIH HHS HHSN272201400052CNIAID NIH HHS R01 AI100135NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI124284NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI118608
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infections take their greatest toll in early life necessitating robust approaches to protect the very young. Here, we review the rationale, current state, and future research directions for one such approach: neonatal immunization. Challenges to neonatal immunization include natural concern about safety as well as a distinct neonatal immune system that is generally polarized against Th1 responses to many stimuli such that some vaccines that are effective in adults are not in newborns. Nevertheless, neonatal immunization could result in high-population penetration as birth is a reliable point of healthcare contact, and offers an opportunity for early protection of the young, including preterm newborns who are deficient in maternal antibodies. Despite distinct immunity and reduced responses to some vaccines, several vaccines have proven safe and effective at birth. While some vaccines such as polysaccharide vaccines have little effectiveness at birth, hepatitis B vaccine can prime at birth and requires multiple doses to achieve protection, whereas the live-attenuated Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), may offer single shot protection, potentially in part

Indexed as

ImmunizationAnimalsAnimals, NewbornHumansInfant, NewbornVaccinesVaccinesneonatalnovel adjuvantsprotectiontrained immunityvaccine

Identifiers

PMID29670610
PMCPMC5893894

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