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ReviewAdvanced drug delivery reviews2021

Advances in gene-based vaccine platforms to address the COVID-19 pandemic.

Deborah Pushparajah, Salma Jimenez, Shirley Wong, Hibah Alattas, Nafiseh Nafissi, Roderick A Slavcev

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Review in Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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51citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

51 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

6 authors.

Deborah PushparajahSchool of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo, 10A Victoria St S, Kitchener N2G 1C5, Canada.
Salma JimenezSchool of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo, 10A Victoria St S, Kitchener N2G 1C5, Canada; Theraphage, 151 Charles St W Suite # 199, Kitchener, ON, N2G 1H6, Canada.
Shirley WongSchool of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo, 10A Victoria St S, Kitchener N2G 1C5, Canada.
Hibah AlattasSchool of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo, 10A Victoria St S, Kitchener N2G 1C5, Canada.
Nafiseh NafissiMediphage Bioceuticals, 661 University Avenue, Suite 1300, Toronto, ON, M5G 0B7, Canada.
Roderick A SlavcevSchool of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo, 10A Victoria St S, Kitchener N2G 1C5, Canada; Mediphage Bioceuticals, 661 University Avenue, Suite 1300, Toronto, ON, M5G 0B7, Canada; Theraphage, 151 Charles St W Suite # 199, Kitchener, ON, N2G 1H6, Canada. Electronic address: slavcev@uwaterloo.ca.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The novel betacoronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2), has spread across the globe at an unprecedented rate since its first emergence in Wuhan City, China in December 2019. Scientific communities around the world have been rigorously working to develop a potent vaccine to combat COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), employing conventional and novel vaccine strategies. Gene-based vaccine platforms based on viral vectors, DNA, and RNA, have shown promising results encompassing both humoral and cell-mediated immune responses in previous studies, supporting their implementation for COVID-19 vaccine development. In fact, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently authorized the emergency use of two RNA-based COVID-19 vaccines. We review current gene-based vaccine candidates proceeding through clinical trials, including their antigenic targets, delivery vehicles, and route of administration. Important features of previous gene-based vaccine developments against other infectious diseases are discussed in guiding the design and development of effective vaccines against COVID-19 and future derivatives.

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AnimalsClinical Trials as TopicCOVID-19COVID-19 VaccinesHumansmRNA VaccinesPandemicsSARS-CoV-2Vaccines, SyntheticViral VaccinesCOVID-19 VaccinesmRNA VaccinesVaccines, SyntheticViral VaccinesCoronavirusCOVID-19DNA vaccinesNon-replicative viral vaccinesReplicative viral vaccinesRNA vaccinesSARS-CoV-2Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID33422546
PMCPMC7789827

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