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ArticleAnnals of internal medicine2013

Invasive meningococcal disease in men who have sex with men.

Matthew S Simon, Don Weiss, Roy M Gulick

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Article in Annals of internal medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Prevalence of Neisseria meningitidis carriage among men who have sex with men at a sexual health clinic in Brussels, Belgium: a cross-sectional study.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2025
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  3. Continuing genomic evolution of theMicrobial genomics · 2023
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  8. Meningococcal Vaccinations.Infectious diseases and therapy · 2016
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  16. [What's new in clinical dermatology?].Annales de dermatologie et de venereologie · 2013
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Matthew S Simon
Don Weiss
Roy M Gulick
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · US

Funding

Clinical and Translational Science CenterUL1TR000457 · NCATS · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI IMPERATO-MCGINLEY, JULIANNE L · 2012 to 2016
$46.0M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000457
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Homosexuality, MaleAdultCanadaDisease OutbreaksHIV InfectionsHumansMaleMeningococcal InfectionsMeningococcal VaccinesNeisseria meningitidisNew York CityRisk FactorsUnited StatesMeningococcal Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID23778867
PMCPMC3962794
OpenAlexW2083078037

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.