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ReviewAnnual review of microbiology2018

Ebola: Lessons on Vaccine Development.

Heinz Feldmann, Friederike Feldmann, Andrea Marzi

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Review in Annual review of microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing 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

27 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Design of universal Ebola virus vaccine candidates via immunofocusing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  5. Design of universal Ebola virus vaccine candidatesbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023
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  14. Biodefence research two decades on: worth the investment?The Lancet. Infectious diseases · 2021
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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

3 authors.

Heinz FeldmannLaboratory of Virology, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana 59840, USA; email: feldmannh@niaid.nih.gov.
Friederike FeldmannRocky Mountain Veterinary Branch, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana 59840, USA.
Andrea MarziLaboratory of Virology, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana 59840, USA; email: feldmannh@niaid.nih.gov.

Funding

Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers: Disease Modeling and TransmissionZIAAI001089 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI FELDMANN, HEINRICH · 2009 to 2025
$50.7M
CAP: Trivalent Filovirus Vaccine for Pre- and Post-Exposure VaccinationZIAAI001163 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI FELDMANN, HEINRICH · 2012 to 2019
$3.9M
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 AI999999Intramural NIH HHS ZIA AI001089Intramural NIH HHS ZIA AI001163
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The West African Ebola virus (EBOV) epidemic has fast-tracked countermeasures for this rare, emerging zoonotic pathogen. Until 2013-2014, most EBOV vaccine candidates were stalled between the preclinical and clinical milestones on the path to licensure, because of funding problems, lack of interest from pharmaceutical companies, and competing priorities in public health. The unprecedented and devastating epidemic propelled vaccine candidates toward clinical trials that were initiated near the end of the active response to the outbreak. Those trials did not have a major impact on the epidemic but provided invaluable data on vaccine safety, immunogenicity, and, to a limited degree, even efficacy in humans. There are plenty of lessons to learn from these trials, some of which are addressed in this review. Better preparation is essential to executing an effective response to EBOV in the future; yet, the first indications of waning interest are already noticeable.

Indexed as

Clinical Trials as TopicDisease Transmission, InfectiousDrug ApprovalDrug DevelopmentDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalEbola VaccinesEbolavirusHemorrhagic Fever, EbolaHumansEbola Vaccinesanimal modelschallengesclinical trialsEbola viruslessons learnedvaccines

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PMID30200851
PMCPMC11059209

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