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ReviewViruses2019

Virus-Like Particles and Nanoparticles for Vaccine Development against HCMV.

Michela Perotti, Laurent Perez

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Review in Viruses, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 39 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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Michela PerottiFaculty of Biomedical Sciences, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Università della Svizzera Italiana, 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland.
Laurent PerezFaculty of Biomedical Sciences, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Università della Svizzera Italiana, 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-8860-7928
ETH Zurich · CHUniversità della Svizzera italiana · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infects more than 70% of the human population worldwide. HCMV is responsible for high morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients and remains the leading viral cause of congenital birth defects. Despite considerable efforts in vaccine and therapeutic development, HCMV infection still represents an unmet clinical need and a life-threatening disease in immunocompromised individuals and newborns. Immune repertoire interrogation of HCMV seropositive patients allowed the identification of several potential antigens for vaccine design. However, recent HCMV vaccine clinical trials did not lead to a satisfactory outcome in term of efficacy. Therefore, combining antigens with orthogonal technologies to further increase the induction of neutralizing antibodies could improve the likelihood of a vaccine to reach protective efficacy in humans. Indeed, presentation of multiple copies of an antigen in a repetitive array is known to drive a more robust humoral immune response than its soluble counterpart. Virus-like particles (VLPs) and nanoparticles (NPs) are powerful platforms for multivalent antigen presentation. Several self-assembling proteins have been successfully used as scaffolds to present complex glycoprotein antigens on their surface. In this review, we describe some key aspects of the immune response to HCMV and discuss the scaffolds that were successfully used to increase vaccine efficacy against viruses with unmet medical need.

Indexed as

Immunity, HumoralAnimalsAntibodies, NeutralizingAntibodies, ViralAntigen PresentationClinical Trials as TopicCytomegalovirusCytomegalovirus InfectionsHumansImmunocompromised HostMiceNanoparticlesVaccines, Virus-Like ParticleViral Envelope ProteinsAntibodies, NeutralizingAntibodies, ViralVaccines, Virus-Like ParticleViral Envelope ProteinscytomegalovirusHCMVimmune responsenanoparticlevaccineVLP

Identifiers

PMID31905677
PMCPMC7019358
OpenAlexW2997970446

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