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ReviewViruses2022

Understanding Immune Responses to Viruses-Do Underlying Th1/Th2 Cell Biases Predict Outcome?

Faith H N Howard, Amy Kwan, Natalie Winder, Amina Mughal, Cristal Collado-Rojas, Munitta Muthana

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In one paragraph

Review in Viruses, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
43citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.5field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
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

43 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  8. More than malaria: ExploringCurrent research in parasitology & vector-borne diseases · 2026
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  10. Soluble recombinant enterovirus 71 VP1 fused to truncated newcastle disease virus nucleoprotein elicits immune responses in mice.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2025
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  18. Exploring Asthma as a Protective Factor in COVID-19 Outcomes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  19. In Asthma, Change Is the Only Constant.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Faith H N HowardDepartment of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2RX, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9899-3079
Amy KwanDepartment of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2RX, UK.
Natalie WinderDepartment of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2RX, UK.
Amina MughalDepartment of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2RX, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2701-7019
Cristal Collado-RojasDepartment of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2RX, UK.
Munitta MuthanaDepartment of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2RX, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2497-8903
University of Sheffield · GB

Funding

Cancer Research UK 24321Cancer Research UK C25574/A24321Marie Curie 777682 (CANCER)Medical Research Council G0902317
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Emerging and re-emerging viral diseases have increased in number and geographical extent during the last decades. Examples include the current COVID-19 pandemic and the recent epidemics of the Chikungunya, Ebola, and Zika viruses. Immune responses to viruses have been well-characterised within the innate and adaptive immunity pathways with the outcome following viral infection predominantly attributed to properties of the virus and circumstances of the infection. Perhaps the belief that the immune system is often considered as a reactive component of host defence, springing into action when a threat is detected, has contributed to a poorer understanding of the inherent differences in an individual's immune system in the absence of any pathology. In this review, we focus on how these host factors (age, ethnicity, underlying pathologies) may skew the T helper cell response, thereby influencing the outcome following viral infection but also whether we can use these inherent biases to predict patients at risk of a deviant response and apply strategies to avoid or overcome them.

Indexed as

COVID-19Virus DiseasesZika VirusZika Virus InfectionBiasHumansImmunity, InnatePandemicsTh2 CellsbiomarkersimmunityT-cellsvirotherapyviruses

Identifiers

PMID35891472
PMCPMC9324514
OpenAlexW4285009689

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