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ReviewNature reviews. Immunology2024

Opportunities and challenges for T cell-based influenza vaccines.

Tim R Mosmann, Andrew J McMichael, Alexandre LeVert, John W McCauley, Jeffrey W Almond

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Review in Nature reviews. Immunology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Tim R MosmannDavid H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA. tim_mosmann@urmc.rochester.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9753-6941
Andrew J McMichaelCentre for Immuno-Oncology, Old Road Campus Research Building, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9101-7478
Alexandre LeVertOsivax, Lyon, France.
John W McCauleyThe Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4744-6347
Jeffrey W AlmondThe Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vaccination remains our main defence against influenza, which causes substantial annual mortality and poses a serious pandemic threat. Influenza virus evades immunity by rapidly changing its surface antigens but, even when the vaccine is well matched to the current circulating virus strains, influenza vaccines are not as effective as many other vaccines. Influenza vaccine development has traditionally focused on the induction of protective antibodies, but there is mounting evidence that T cell responses are also protective against influenza. Thus, future vaccines designed to promote both broad T cell effector functions and antibodies may provide enhanced protection. As we discuss, such vaccines present several challenges that require new strategic and economic considerations. Vaccine-induced T cells relevant to protection may reside in the lungs or lymphoid tissues, requiring more invasive assays to assess the immunogenicity of vaccine candidates. T cell functions may contain and resolve infection rather than completely prevent infection and early illness, requiring vaccine effectiveness to be assessed based on the prevention of severe disease and death rather than symptomatic infection. It can be complex and costly to measure T cell responses and infrequent clinical outcomes, and thus innovations in clinical trial design are needed for economic reasons. Nevertheless, the goal of more effective influenza vaccines justifies renewed and intensive efforts.

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Influenza, HumanInfluenza VaccinesT-LymphocytesAnimalsHumansVaccinationVaccine DevelopmentInfluenza Vaccines

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