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ReviewThe Lancet. Infectious diseases2022

Accelerating research and development of new vaccines against tuberculosis: a global roadmap.

Frank Cobelens, Rajinder Kumar Suri, Michelle Helinski, Michael Makanga, Ana Lúcia Weinberg, Britta Schaffmeister, Frank Deege, Mark Hatherill, TB Vaccine Roadmap Stakeholder Group

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Review in The Lancet. Infectious diseases, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Frank CobelensDepartment of Global Health and Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Electronic address: f.g.cobelens@amsterdamumc.nl.
Rajinder Kumar SuriDepartment of Governance and Strategy, Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers' Network International, Nyon, Switzerland.
Michelle HelinskiEuropean & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership, The Hague, Netherlands.
Michael MakangaEuropean & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership, The Hague, Netherlands.
Ana Lúcia WeinbergEuropean & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership, The Hague, Netherlands.
Britta SchaffmeisterNextco, Oegstgeest, Netherlands.
Frank DeegeNextco, Oegstgeest, Netherlands.
Mark HatherillSouth African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, and Division of Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
TB Vaccine Roadmap Stakeholder Group

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To eliminate tuberculosis globally, a new, effective, and affordable vaccine is urgently needed, particularly for use in adults and adolescents in low-income and middle-income countries. We have created a roadmap that lists the actions needed to accelerate tuberculosis vaccine research and development using a participatory process. The vaccine pipeline needs more diverse immunological approaches, antigens, and platforms. Clinical development can be accelerated by validated preclinical models, agreed laboratory correlates of protection, efficient trial designs, and validated endpoints. Determining the public health impact of new tuberculosis vaccines requires understanding of a country's demand for a new tuberculosis vaccine, how to integrate vaccine implementation with ongoing tuberculosis prevention efforts, cost, and national and global demand to stimulate vaccine production. Investments in tuberculosis vaccine research and development need to be increased, with more diversity of funding sources and coordination between these funders. Open science is important to enhance the efficiency of tuberculosis vaccine research and development including early and freely available publication of study findings and effective mechanisms for sharing datasets and specimens. There is a need for increased engagement of industry vaccine developers, for increased political commitment for new tuberculosis vaccines, and to address stigma and vaccine hesitancy. The unprecedented speed by which COVID-19 vaccines have been developed and introduced provides important insight for tuberculosis vaccine research and development.

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COVID-19TuberculosisTuberculosis VaccinesVaccinesAdolescentAdultCOVID-19 VaccinesHumansResearchCOVID-19 VaccinesTuberculosis VaccinesVaccines

Identifiers

PMID35240041
PMCPMC8884775

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