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ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2021

The Road towards Polyclonal Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Immunoglobulins (Hyperimmune Serum) for Passive Immunization in COVID-19.

Daniele Focosi, Marco Tuccori, Massimo Franchini

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Article in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Hyperimmune immunoglobulin for people with COVID-19.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023
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  4. Monoclonal Antibodies and Hyperimmune Immunoglobulins in the Next Pandemic.Current topics in microbiology and immunology · 2025
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  5. COVID-19 therapeutics.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2024
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  13. SARS-CoV-2 Neutralization in Convalescent Plasma and Commercial Lots of Plasma-Derived Immunoglobulin.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2022
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  16. SARS-CoV-2 Antiviral Therapy.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Daniele FocosiNorth-Western Tuscany Blood Bank, Pisa University Hospital, 56124 Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8811-195X
Marco TuccoriDivision of Pharmacology and Pharmacovigilance, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7979-8486
Massimo FranchiniDepartment of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Carlo Poma Hospital, 46100 Mantua, Italy.
Azienda Ospedaliera Carlo Poma · ITUniversity of Pisa · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Effective treatments specific for COVID-19 are still lacking. In the setting of passive immunotherapies based on neutralizing antibodies (nAbs), randomized controlled trials of COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) anti-SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein monoclonal antibodies (mAb), which have been granted emergency use authorization, have suggested benefit in early disease course (less than 72 hours from symptoms and seronegative). Meanwhile, polyclonal immunoglobulins (i.e., hyperimmune serum), derived either from CCP donations or from animals immunized with SARS-CoV-2 antigens, are likely to become the next nAb-derived candidate. We here discuss the pros and cons of hyperimmune serum versus CCP and mAb, and summarize the ongoing clinical trials of COVID-19 hyperimmune sera.

Indexed as

Cohn’s fractionationconvalescent plasmaCOVID-19IgGpassive immunotherapypolyclonal immunoglobulinsSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID33671893
PMCPMC7918959
OpenAlexW3129676052

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