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ArticleScientific reports2021

Next generation methodology for updating HA vaccines against emerging human seasonal influenza A(H3N2) viruses.

James D Allen, Ted M Ross

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers.

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50citing papers in PubMed
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

50 citing papers in PubMed, 53 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

James D AllenCenter for Vaccines and Immunology, University of Georgia, 501 D.W. Brooks Drive, CVI Room 1504, Athens, GA, 30602, USA.
Ted M RossCenter for Vaccines and Immunology, University of Georgia, 501 D.W. Brooks Drive, CVI Room 1504, Athens, GA, 30602, USA. tedross@uga.edu.
University of Georgia · US

Funding

COVID Supplement - COMPONENT A OF THE COLLABORATIVE INFLUENZA VACCINE INNOVATION CENTERS (CIVICS) PROGRAM TO DESIGN AND EVALUATE INNOVATIVE INFLUENZA VACCINE APPROACHES,75N93019C00052 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI ROSS, TED · 2019 to 2025
$74.6M
NIAID NIH HHS 75N93019C00052
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While vaccines remain the best tool for preventing influenza virus infections, they have demonstrated low to moderate effectiveness in recent years. Seasonal influenza vaccines typically consist of wild-type influenza A and B viruses that are limited in their ability to elicit protective immune responses against co-circulating influenza virus variant strains. Improved influenza virus vaccines need to elicit protective immune responses against multiple influenza virus drift variants within each season. Broadly reactive vaccine candidates potentially provide a solution to this problem, but their efficacy may begin to wane as influenza viruses naturally mutate through processes that mediates drift. Thus, it is necessary to develop a method that commercial vaccine manufacturers can use to update broadly reactive vaccine antigens to better protect against future and currently circulating viral variants. Building upon the COBRA technology, nine next-generation H3N2 influenza hemagglutinin (HA) vaccines were designed using a next generation algorithm and design methodology. These next-generation broadly reactive COBRA H3 HA vaccines were superior to wild-type HA vaccines at eliciting antibodies with high HAI activity against a panel of historical and co-circulating H3N2 influenza viruses isolated over the last 15 years, as well as the ability to neutralize future emerging H3N2 isolates.

Indexed as

Hemagglutination Inhibition TestsHemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza VirusHumansInfluenza A virusInfluenza A Virus, H3N2 SubtypeInfluenza B virusInfluenza, HumanInfluenza VaccinesSeasonsVaccines, Virus-Like ParticleHemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza VirusInfluenza VaccinesVaccines, Virus-Like Particle

Identifiers

PMID33654128
PMCPMC7925519
OpenAlexW3134155546

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