Evidence map›Paper›PMID 12782708›Full record

ArticleThe Journal of experimental medicine2003

Exploiting the redundancy in the immune system: vaccines can mediate protection by eliciting 'unnatural' immunity.

Arturo Casadevall, Liise-Anne Pirofski

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Article in The Journal of experimental medicine, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing 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

22 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Cryptococcal Meningitis Treatment Beyond HIV: Recognizing the Need for Individualized Immune-Based Strategies.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2025
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  4. Implications of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Antibody Dynamics for Immunity and Convalescent Plasma Therapy.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021
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  6. Subdominance in Antibody Responses: Implications for Vaccine Development.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2020
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  7. Update on Chlamydia trachomatis Vaccinology.Clinical and vaccine immunology : CVI · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Arturo CasadevallDepartment of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Ave., Bronx, NY 10461, USA. casadeva@aecom.yu.edu
Liise-Anne Pirofski

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Allergy and ImmunologyAnimalsB-LymphocytesCross ReactionsHumansImmunity, InnateInfectionsMiceMycosesT-LymphocytesToxoidsVaccinesToxoidsVaccines

Identifiers

PMID12782708
PMCPMC2193913

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