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ReviewViruses2023

Virus-like Particle Vaccines and Platforms for Vaccine Development.

Milad Kheirvari, Hong Liu, Ebenezer Tumban

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Review in Viruses, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 83 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
83citing papers in PubMed
23.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

83 citing papers in PubMed, 123 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Milad KheirvariSchool of Veterinary Medicine, Texas Tech University, Amarillo, TX 79106, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3385-6019
Hong LiuSchool of Veterinary Medicine, Texas Tech University, Amarillo, TX 79106, USA.
Ebenezer TumbanSchool of Veterinary Medicine, Texas Tech University, Amarillo, TX 79106, USA.
Texas Tech University · US

Funding

Development of a novel and broadly applicable thermostable bacteriophage VLPs platforms for vaccine design, drug delivery, and imagingR15AI146982 · NIAID · TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY · PI TUMBAN, EBENEZER · 2020 to 2020
$444k
NIAID NIH HHS R15 AI146982NIH HHS 7R15AI146982-02
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Virus-like particles (VLPs) have gained a lot of interest within the past two decades. The use of VLP-based vaccines to protect against three infectious agents-hepatitis B virus, human papillomavirus, and hepatitis E virus-has been approved; they are very efficacious and offer long-lasting immune responses. Besides these, VLPs from other viral infectious agents (that infect humans, animals, plants, and bacteria) are under development. These VLPs, especially those from human and animal viruses, serve as stand-alone vaccines to protect against viruses from which the VLPs were derived. Additionally, VLPs, including those derived from plant and bacterial viruses, serve as platforms upon which to display foreign peptide antigens from other infectious agents or metabolic diseases such as cancer, i.e., they can be used to develop chimeric VLPs. The goal of chimeric VLPs is to enhance the immunogenicity of foreign peptides displayed on VLPs and not necessarily the platforms. This review provides a summary of VLP vaccines for human and veterinary use that have been approved and those that are under development. Furthermore, this review summarizes chimeric VLP vaccines that have been developed and tested in pre-clinical studies. Finally, the review concludes with a snapshot of the advantages of VLP-based vaccines such as hybrid/mosaic VLPs over conventional vaccine approaches such as live-attenuated and inactivated vaccines.

Indexed as

Vaccines, Virus-Like ParticleVirusesAnimalsHepatitis B virusHumansVaccine DevelopmentVaccines, Virus-Like Particlechimeric VLPsefficacyimmunogenicityvaccinesvirus-like particles

Identifiers

PMID37243195
PMCPMC10223759
OpenAlexW4368377422

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