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ReviewVaccine2025

Report of a SPEAC webinar 22 september 2023: Sensorineural hearing loss, lassa virus disease and vaccines.

Nicholas S Reed, Carmen C Brewer, Gideon Akintunde, Faustina F Blackie, Lovelyn Charles, Patricia Fast, Paul-Henri Lambert, Sylvanus Okogbenin, Slobodan Paessler, Daniel D Pinschewer and 3 more

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Review in Vaccine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing 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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Nicholas S ReedOptimal Aging Institute, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Carmen C BrewerAuditory and Vestibular Clinical Research Section (AVCRS), National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Gideon AkintundeEmergent Biosolutions, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
Faustina F BlackieIrrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria.
Lovelyn CharlesEmergent Biosolutions, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
Patricia FastInternational Aids Vaccine Initiative, New York, NY, USA.
Paul-Henri LambertCentre of Vaccinology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Sylvanus OkogbeninIrrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria.
Slobodan PaesslerUniversity of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston National Laboratory, Galveston, TX, USA.
Daniel D PinschewerDepartment of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Karina A TopUniversity of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Steven B BlackBrighton Collaboration, Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, GA, USA.
Cornelia L DekkerStanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA. Electronic address: cdekker@stanford.edu.

Funding

Clinical Analysis Of Disorders Of Hearing And BalanceZIADC000064 · NIDCD · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS · PI HERTZANO, RONNA · 2009 to 2025
$25.2M
Sequelae of Lassa FeverR01AI129198 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · PI PAESSLER, SLOBODAN · 2018 to 2022
$3.9M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA DC000064NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI129198
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lassa virus (LASV) belongs to the Arenavirus family. LASV is endemic in several West Africa countries and causes viral hemorrhagic fevers. The Nigeria CDC has reported that an outbreak in 2024 in 28 states has resulted in 7767 suspected cases of Lassa fever, 971 confirmed cases and 166 confirmed deaths up to 11 August. Since infection with LASV can result in sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in up to 30% of patients, there are questions about whether triggering the immune response by immunization with LASV vaccines could potentially cause SNHL, although this has not been shown in clinical trials to date. To address this issue, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the Brighton Collaboration (BC) Safety Platform for Emergency vACcines (SPEAC) convened a three-hour webinar on 22 September 2023 to review what is known from both animal studies and human clinical trials and how hearing assessments in future clinical trials can help to assess the risk. This report summarizes the evidence presented and provides considerations for hearing assessment in expanded human trials of LASV vaccine candidates in children and adults.

Indexed as

Hearing Loss, SensorineuralLassa FeverLassa virusViral VaccinesAnimalsClinical Trials as TopicHumansNigeriaViral VaccinesLassa virus feverLassa virus immunityLassa virus vaccinationSensorineural hearing loss

Identifiers

PMID39579650
PMCPMC11734638

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