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ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2019

Current Animal Models for Understanding the Pathology Caused by the Respiratory Syncytial Virus.

María José Altamirano-Lagos, Fabián E Díaz, Miguel Andrés Mansilla, Daniela Rivera-Pérez, Daniel Soto, Jodi L McGill, Abel E Vasquez, Alexis M Kalergis

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
36citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Lamb Model of RSV Infection.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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  13. Visualizing Respiratory Syncytial Virus Replication in Live Mice.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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  16. Controlled Human Infection Challenge Studies with RSV.Current topics in microbiology and immunology · 2024
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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

8 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

María José Altamirano-LagosDepartamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Fabián E DíazDepartamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Miguel Andrés MansillaDepartamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Daniela Rivera-PérezDepartamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Daniel SotoSección Biotecnología, Instituto de Salud Pública de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Jodi L McGillDepartment of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States.
Abel E VasquezSección Biotecnología, Instituto de Salud Pública de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Alexis M KalergisDepartamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile · CLMillennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy · CLInstituto de Salud Pública de Chile · CLIowa State University · USSan Sebastián University · CL

Funding

Determining the role of Interleukin-17 in the Immune Response to Respiratory Syncytial Virus InfectionR21AI127895 · NIAID · KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY · PI MCGILL, JODI · 2017 to 2018
$420k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI127895
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human respiratory syncytial virus (hRSV) is the main etiologic agent of severe lower respiratory tract infections that affect young children throughout the world, associated with significant morbidity and mortality, becoming a serious public health problem globally. Up to date, no licensed vaccines are available to prevent severe hRSV-induced disease, and the generation of safe-effective vaccines has been a challenging task, requiring constant biomedical research aimed to overcome this ailment. Among the difficulties presented by the study of this pathogen, it arises the fact that there is no single animal model that resembles all aspects of the human pathology, which is due to the specificity that this pathogen has for the human host. Thus, for the study of hRSV, different animal models might be employed, depending on the goal of the study. Of all the existing models, the murine model has been the most frequent model of choice for biomedical studies worldwide and has been of great importance at contributing to the development and understanding of vaccines and therapies against hRSV. The most notable use of the murine model is that it is very useful as a first approach in the development of vaccines or therapies such as monoclonal antibodies, suggesting in this way the direction that research could have in other preclinical models that have higher maintenance costs and more complex requirements in its management. However, several additional different models for studying hRSV, such as other rodents, mustelids, ruminants, and non-human primates, have been explored, offering advantages over the murine model. In this review, we discuss the various applications of animal models to the study of hRSV-induced disease and the advantages and disadvantages of each model, highlighting the potential of each model to elucidate different features of the pathology caused by the hRSV infection.

Indexed as

bovine respiratory syncytial virushuman respiratory syncytial viruslower respiratory tract infectionsnon-human primate modelrodent model

Identifiers

PMID31130923
PMCPMC6510261
OpenAlexW2943044598

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