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ReviewNature reviews. Microbiology2006

Group B Streptococcus: global incidence and vaccine development.

Atul Kumar Johri, Lawrence C Paoletti, Philippe Glaser, Meenakshi Dua, Puja Kumari Sharma, Guido Grandi, Rino Rappuoli

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Review in Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 130 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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

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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

130 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Atul Kumar JohriSchool of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India. akjohri14@yahoo.com
Lawrence C Paoletti
Philippe Glaser
Meenakshi Dua
Puja Kumari Sharma
Guido Grandi
Rino Rappuoli

Funding

Development of a Global GBS VaccineU01AI060603 · NIAID · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI PAOLETTI, LAWRENCE C · 2004 to 2007
$2.6M
NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI060603
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An ongoing public health challenge is to develop vaccines that are effective against infectious diseases that have global relevance. Vaccines against serotypes of group B Streptococcus (GBS) that are prevalent in the United States and Europe are not optimally efficacious against serotypes common to other parts of the world. New technologies and innovative approaches are being used to identify GBS antigens that overcome serotype-specificity and that could form the basis of a globally effective vaccine against this opportunistic pathogen. This Review highlights efforts towards this goal and describes a template that can be followed to develop vaccines against other bacterial pathogens.

Indexed as

Bacterial VaccinesGlobal HealthBacterial CapsulesBacterial ProteinsFemaleGene Expression Regulation, BacterialGenome, BacterialHumansIncidenceInfant, NewbornPolysaccharides, BacterialPregnancyPregnancy Complications, InfectiousProteomicsStreptococcal InfectionsStreptococcus agalactiaeBacterial ProteinsBacterial VaccinesPolysaccharides, Bacterial

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PMID17088932
PMCPMC2742968

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