A systematic review and meta-analysis of preclinical trials testing anti-toxin therapies for B. anthracis infection: A need for more robust study designs and results

• Wanying Xu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Lernik Ohanjandian,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Junfeng Sun,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Xizhong Cui,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Dante Suffredini,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Yan Li,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Judith Welsh,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation National Institutes of Health Library, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Peter Q. Eichacker

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: peichacker@mail.cc.nih.gov

  Affiliation Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5470-4677

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