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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2025

BCG and beyond: unlocking new frontiers in TB vaccine development.

Aishwarya Shaji, Akanksha Verma, Ashima Bhaskar, Ved Prakash Dwivedi

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing 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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Aishwarya ShajiImmunobiology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India.
Akanksha VermaImmunobiology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India.
Ashima BhaskarImmunobiology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India.
Ved Prakash DwivediImmunobiology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Please confirm that the below Frontiers AI generated Alt-Text is an accurate visual description of your Figure(s). These Figure Alt-text proposals won't replace your figure captions and will not be visible on your article. If you wish to make any changes, kindly provide the exact revised Alt-Text you would like to use, ensuring that the word-count remains at approximately 100 words for best accessibility results. Further information on Alt-Text can be found here.With over 10 million new cases and 1.6 million deaths annually, tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a significant worldwide health-burden. To assist in curbing the spread of TB, the century-old BCG, which is a live-attenuated vaccine, is now the only licensed TB vaccine used in humans. However, BCG's limited efficacy and poor antigenicity in adults have evoked the need to design new vaccines against TB. The limited parameter is the availability of potent antigens; as a consequence, it is imperative to study the

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BCG VaccineMycobacterium tuberculosisTuberculosisTuberculosis VaccinesVaccine DevelopmentAnimalsAntigens, BacterialHumansAntigens, BacterialBCG VaccineTuberculosis VaccinesBCGhost geneticstrained immunitytuberculosisvaccine

Identifiers

PMID40808947
PMCPMC12343704

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