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ReviewCell host & microbe2018

Mechanisms of M. tuberculosis Immune Evasion as Challenges to TB Vaccine Design.

Joel D Ernst

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In one paragraph

Review in Cell host & microbe, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 86 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
86citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
8.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

86 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 141 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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Joel D ErnstDivision of Experimental Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: joel.ernst@ucsf.edu.
University of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Role of antigen-specific T cell responses in the control of TBU19AI111211 · NIAID · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI BLUMBERG, HENRY M, ERNST, JOEL D. · 2014 to 2020
$20.1M
Initiation of the Immune Response to M. tuberculosisR01AI051242 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ERNST, JOEL D. · 2002 to 2019
$8.3M
Antigen export in M. tuberculosis evasion of CD4 T cellsR01AI124471 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ERNST, JOEL D. · 2016 to 2019
$2.7M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI051242NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI124471NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI111211
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) is a large global health problem, in part because of the long period of coevolution of the pathogen, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and its human host. A major factor that sustains the global epidemic of TB is the lack of a sufficiently effective vaccine. While basic mechanisms of immunity that protect against TB have been identified, attempts to improve immunity to TB by vaccination have been disappointing. This Review discusses the mechanisms used by M. tuberculosis to evade innate and adaptive immunity and that likely limit the efficacy of vaccines developed to date. Despite multiple mechanisms of immune evasion, recent trials have indicated that effective TB vaccines remain an attainable goal. This Review discusses how knowledge from other systems can inform improvements on current vaccine approaches.

Indexed as

Adaptive ImmunityAnimalsBCG VaccineClinical Trials as TopicGranulomaHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansImmune EvasionImmunity, InnateMycobacterium tuberculosisT-LymphocytesTuberculosisTuberculosis VaccinesVaccines, AttenuatedBCG VaccineTuberculosis VaccinesVaccines, Attenuated

Identifiers

PMID30001523
PMCPMC6482466
OpenAlexW2834181619

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Registered trials

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