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ReviewPathogens and global health2014

Bexsero® chronicle.

George Vernikos, Duccio Medini

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Review in Pathogens and global health, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers.

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60citing 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

60 citing papers in PubMed.

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  20. Meningococcal Disease in Pediatric Age: A Focus on Epidemiology and Prevention.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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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

2 authors.

George Vernikos
Duccio Medini

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neisseria meningitidis causes globally 1·2 million invasive disease cases and 135,000 deaths per year, mostly in infants and adolescents. A century of traditional vaccinology had failed the fight against the serogroup B meningococcus (MenB), mostly prevalent in developed countries. Eighteen years after the publication of the first complete genome sequence from a living organism, thanks to an innovative genome-based approach named 'reverse vaccinology', the first broadly effective MenB vaccine was licensed for use by the European Medical Agency and other authorities, and is being implemented worldwide. Here we review this long and passionate journey, from the disease epidemiology to novel antigen discovery, from vaccine clinical development to public health impact: two decades of scientific and technological innovation to defeat one of the most sudden and devastating invasive diseases.

Indexed as

Drug ApprovalHistory, 21st CenturyHumansMeningococcal InfectionsMeningococcal VaccinesNeisseria meningitidis4CMenB vaccineMeningococcal Vaccines4CMenB,Antigen Typing System (MATS)Bexsero,Meningococcal,Neisseria meningitidis,Serogroup B meningitis,

Identifiers

PMID25417906
PMCPMC4241781

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