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SynthesisBioMed research international2014

Booster vaccination: the role of reduced antigen content vaccines as a preschool booster.

Giovanni Gabutti, Cecilia Trucchi, Michele Conversano, Giambattista Zivelonghi, Giorgio Zoppi

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Synthesis in BioMed research international, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 30% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trial
  2. Review
  3. Decennial diphtheria-tetanus adult boosters: are they really necessary?Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2015
    Review
  4. Pertussis.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2015
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Giovanni GabuttiDepartment of Prevention, O.U. Hygiene and Public Health, LHU 4 "Chiavarese"-Liguria Region, Corso Dante 163, Chiavari, 16043 Genoa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7259-4923
Cecilia TrucchiDepartment of Health Sciences, University of Genova, Via Pastore 1, 16132 Genoa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4633-202X
Michele ConversanoDepartment of Prevention, LHU Taranto, Viale Virgilio 31, 74100 Taranto, Italy.
Giambattista ZivelonghiDepartment of Prevention, LHU 20 Verona, Via Salvo d'Acquisto 7, 37122 Verona, Italy.
Giorgio ZoppiDepartment of Prevention, O.U. Hygiene and Public Health, LHU 4 "Chiavarese"-Liguria Region, Corso Dante 163, Chiavari, 16043 Genoa, Italy.
Regione del Veneto · ITUniversity of Genoa · ITUniversity of Verona · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The need for boosters for tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, and polio, starting from preschool age, is related to the waning immune protection conferred by vaccination, the elimination/reduction of natural boosters due to large-scale immunization programs, and the possibility of reintroduction of wild agents from endemic areas. Taking into account the relevance of safety/tolerability in the compliance with vaccination among the population, it have been assessed whether today enough scientific evidences are available to support the use of dTap-IPV booster in preschool age. The review of the literature was conducted using the PubMed search engine. A total of 41 works has been selected; besides, the documentation produced by the World Health Organization, the European Centre for Disease Control, and the Italian Ministry of Health has been consulted. Many recent papers confirm the opportunity to use a low antigenic dose vaccine starting from 4 to 6 years of age. There is also evidence that 10 years after immunization the rate of seroprotected subjects against diphtheria does not differ significantly between those vaccinated with paediatric dose (DTaP) or reduced dose (dTaP or dTap) product. The dTpa vaccine is highly immunogenic for diphtheria toxoids regardless of prior vaccination history (2 + 1 and 3 + 1 schedules).

Indexed as

Immunization, SecondaryVaccinationChild, PreschoolDiphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis VaccineHumansDiphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis Vaccine

Identifiers

PMID24678509
PMCPMC3941168
OpenAlexW2049453615

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