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ReviewJournal for immunotherapy of cancer2021

Immune profiling of COVID-19: preliminary findings and implications for the pandemic.

Holden T Maecker

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Review in Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Innate immunity to SARS-CoV-2 infection: a review.Epidemiology and infection · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Holden T MaeckerInstitute for Immunity, Transplantation, and Infection, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA maecker@stanford.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 infection can have widely diverse clinical outcomes, from asymptomatic infection to death, with many possible clinical symptoms and syndromes. It is thus essential to understand how the virus interacts with the host immune system to bring about these varied outcomes and to inform vaccine development. We now know that both antibody and T cell responses are induced in the majority of infected individuals, and that cross-reactive responses from other coronaviruses also exist in the uninfected population. Innate immune responses are a key focus of research and may influence the course of disease and the character of subsequent adaptive responses. Finally, baseline immune profiles and changes during early acute infection may be key to predicting the course of disease. Understanding all these aspects can help to create better immune monitoring tools for COVID-19, including tools for predicting disease severity or specific sequelae, perhaps even prior to infection.

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Adaptive ImmunityAntibodies, ViralCOVID-19CytokinesHumansImmunity, InnatePandemicsSARS-CoV-2Severity of Illness IndexT-LymphocytesAntibodies, ViralCytokinesadaptive immunitycellularhumoralimmunityinflammation mediatorsinnate

Identifiers

PMID33963016
PMCPMC8108128

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