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ReviewPediatric research2017

Identification of Helicobacter pylori and the evolution of an efficacious childhood vaccine to protect against gastritis and peptic ulcer disease.

Thomas G Blanchard, Steven J Czinn

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Review in Pediatric research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Impact ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2025
    Pooled it
  2. Pooled it
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  4. Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
    Review
  5. Pivotal role ofFrontiers in medicine · 2024
    Review
  6. Article
  7. Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
    Review
  8. Detection and Treatment ofGastroenterology research and practice · 2022
    Review
  9. Protective immunity enhancedFrontiers in immunology · 2022
    Article
  10. Article
  11. Cost‑effectiveness Analysis ofPatient preference and adherence · 2021
    Article
  12. The Interaction ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2019
    Review
  13. Article
  14. Article
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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Thomas G BlanchardDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Steven J CzinnDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
University of Maryland, Baltimore · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Establishment of Helicobacter pylori infection as an etiologic agent of peptic ulcer disease and other gastric pathologies marked a revolution in gastroenterology which spurred an enormous interest in gastric physiology and immunology research. The association was soon also demonstrated in children as well. Application of antimicrobial therapies have proven remarkably efficacious in eradicating H. pylori and curing pediatric patients of duodenal ulcers as well as gastritis, negating a lifetime of ineffective therapy and life-threatening disease. Countries with high H. pylori prevalence and where H. pylori associated gastric cancer remains a primary cause of death due to cancer however would benefit from childhood vaccination. Studies in rodents and humans utilizing oral vaccination with bacterial exotoxin adjuvants demonstrated potential for limiting H. pylori colonization in the stomach. Almost 25 y of vaccine research recently culminated in a phase III clinical trial of over 4,000 children aged 6-15 y old to test an oral vaccine consisting of the H. pylori urease B subunit genetically fused to the E. coli heat labile toxin. Vaccination was demonstrated to have an efficacy of over 70%. Vaccination may now serve as an effective strategy to significantly reduce H. pylori associated disease in children throughout the world.

Indexed as

Helicobacter pyloriAdjuvants, ImmunologicAdolescentAnimalsBacterial VaccinesChildClinical Trials, Phase III as TopicDuodenal UlcerEscherichia coliExotoxinsGastritisHelicobacter InfectionsHumansMicePeptic UlcerPrevalenceAdjuvants, ImmunologicBacterial VaccinesExotoxins

Identifiers

PMID27701380
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