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ArticleNature communications2023

Addressing mechanism bias in model-based impact forecasts of new tuberculosis vaccines.

M Tovar, Y Moreno, J Sanz

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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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

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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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. RNA vaccines: The dawn of a new age for tuberculosis?Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2025
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  2. Effects of Kanamycin on Hearing and Vestibular Function in Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Patients.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2025
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  3. The frequency of CD38Nature communications · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

M TovarInstitute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, 50009, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0537-3650
Y MorenoInstitute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, 50009, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0895-1893
J SanzInstitute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, 50009, Spain. jsanz@bifi.es.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2980-9685

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In tuberculosis (TB) vaccine development, multiple factors hinder the design and interpretation of the clinical trials used to estimate vaccine efficacy. The complex transmission chain of TB includes multiple routes to disease, making it hard to link the vaccine efficacy observed in a trial to specific protective mechanisms. Here, we present a Bayesian framework to evaluate the compatibility of different vaccine descriptions with clinical trial outcomes, unlocking impact forecasting from vaccines whose specific mechanisms of action are unknown. Applying our method to the analysis of the M72/AS01

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Latent TuberculosisTuberculosis VaccinesBayes TheoremBiasHumansReinfectionTuberculosis Vaccines

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PMID37658078
PMCPMC10474143

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