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ArticleJournal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology2025

Retraction notice to "Evaluating the efficacy and safety of a novel prophylactic nasal spray in the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection: A multi-centre, double blind, placebo-controlled, randomised trial" [J. Clin. Virol. 155C (2022) 105248].

Damian Balmforth, James A Swales, Laurence Silpa, Alan Dunton, Kay E Davies, Stephen G Davies, Archana Kamath, Jayanti Gupta, Sandeep Gupta, M Abid Masood and 5 more

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Article in Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Damian BalmforthSt Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BE, United Kingdom.
James A SwalesRaphael Labs Limited, 6 Derby Street, London W1J 7AD, United Kingdom.
Laurence SilpaRaphael Labs Limited, 6 Derby Street, London W1J 7AD, United Kingdom; Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3QT, United Kingdom.
Alan DuntonDanerius, LLC, Sarasota, FL, United States.
Kay E DaviesDepartment of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Sir Henry Wellcome Building of Gene Function, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT, United Kingdom.
Stephen G DaviesChemistry Research Laboratory, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, United Kingdom.
Archana KamathManipal Hospital & Research Center, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
Jayanti GuptaTrialGunva Pvt. LTd, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Sandeep GuptaDepartment of Pulmonology, Atharva Multispeciality Hospital & Research Centre, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
M Abid MasoodRaphael Labs Limited, 6 Derby Street, London W1J 7AD, United Kingdom.
Áine McKnightQueen Mary University of London, Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom.
Doug ReesRaphael Labs Limited, 6 Derby Street, London W1J 7AD, United Kingdom.
Angela J RussellDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3QT, United Kingdom; Chemistry Research Laboratory, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, United Kingdom.
Manu JaggiAlthea Lifesciences, Sahibabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Rakesh UppalSt Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BE, United Kingdom; Queen Mary University of London, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London EC1M 6BQ, United Kingdom.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID40374451
PMCPMC12482925

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