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ReviewMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz2022

The translational challenge in Chagas disease drug development.

Jadel M Kratz, Karolina R Gonçalves, Lavínia Md Romera, Carolina Borsoi Moraes, Paula Bittencourt-Cunha, Sergio Schenkman, Eric Chatelain, Sergio Sosa-Estani

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Review in Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33citing papers in PubMed
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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

33 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Jadel M KratzDrugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7681-8234
Karolina R GonçalvesUniversidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Departamento de Microbiologia, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
Lavínia Md RomeraUniversidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Departamento de Microbiologia, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
Carolina Borsoi MoraesUniversidade Federal de São Paulo, Departamento de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Diadema, SP, Brasil.
Paula Bittencourt-CunhaUniversidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Departamento de Microbiologia, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
Sergio SchenkmanUniversidade Federal de São Paulo, Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
Eric ChatelainDrugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, Geneva, Switzerland.
Sergio Sosa-EstaniDrugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8701-5456

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chagas disease is a neglected tropical disease caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. There is an urgent need for safe, effective, and accessible new treatments since the currently approved drugs have serious limitations. Drug development for Chagas disease has historically been hampered by the complexity of the disease, critical knowledge gaps, and lack of coordinated R&D efforts. This review covers some of the translational challenges associated with the progression of new chemical entities from preclinical to clinical phases of development, and discusses how recent technological advances might allow the research community to answer key questions relevant to the disease and to overcome hurdles in R&D for Chagas disease.

Indexed as

Chagas DiseaseTrypanocidal AgentsTrypanosoma cruziDrug DevelopmentDrug DiscoveryHumansNeglected DiseasesTrypanocidal Agents

Identifiers

PMID35613156
PMCPMC9128742

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