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ReviewPathogens (Basel, Switzerland)2017

Differences of Rotavirus Vaccine Effectiveness by Country: Likely Causes and Contributing Factors.

Ulrich Desselberger

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Review in Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 91 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
91citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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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

91 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  19. Impact of dosing schedules on performance of rotavirus vaccines in Ghana.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024
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31 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

1 author.

Ulrich DesselbergerDepartment of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK. ud207@medschl.cam.ac.uk.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rotaviruses are a major cause of acute gastroenteritis in infants and young children worldwide and in many other mammalian and avian host species. Since 2006, two live-attenuated rotavirus vaccines, Rotarix

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avitaminosesgut microbiomeimmunological immaturitylow income countriesmalnutritionmicrobial co-infectionsrotavirusvaccine efficacyzinc deficiency

Identifiers

PMID29231855
PMCPMC5750589

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