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ReviewHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2018

Progress toward the global control of Neisseria meningitidis: 21st century vaccines, current guidelines, and challenges for future vaccine development.

A W Dretler, N G Rouphael, D S Stephens

Registry-linked trialOpen access · bronzeAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07431710 (Utilizing Artificial Intelligence to Optimize Chest Compression Region During Cardio-pulmonary Resuscitation for Patients With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest.), which is not on this map. Cited by 40 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
40citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT07431710 recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Utilizing Artificial Intelligence to Optimize Chest Compression Region During Cardio-pulmonary Resuscitation for Patients With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest.

TypeobservationalSponsorFar Eastern Memorial HospitalRan2025 to 2027Enrolled255ConditionsOut-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA), Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), Aortic Valve Compression, Precision ResuscitationArmsDevice: AI-Enhanced Arterial Waveform Monitor (AIR-CPR App), AI-Guided Chest Compression Repositioning, Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE)
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 80 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Management and prevention of Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections in the context of evolving antimicrobial resistance trends.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2025
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  9. Epidemiology and genetic diversity of invasive Neisseria meningitidis strains circulating in Portugal from 2003 to 2020.International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2024
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  18. Vaccination for meningococcal disease.Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

A W Dretlera Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine , Emory University School of Medicine , Atlanta , GA , USA.
N G Rouphaela Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine , Emory University School of Medicine , Atlanta , GA , USA.
D S Stephensa Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine , Emory University School of Medicine , Atlanta , GA , USA.
Emory University · US

Funding

CDC HHS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The control of meningitis, meningococcemia and other infections caused by Neisseria meningitidis is a significant global health challenge. Substantial progress has occurred in the last twenty years in meningococcal vaccine development and global implementation. Meningococcal protein-polysaccharide conjugate vaccines to serogroups A, C, W, and Y (modeled after the Haemophilus influenzae b conjugate vaccines) provide better duration of protection and immunologic memory, and overcome weak immune responses in infants and young children and hypo-responsive to repeated vaccine doses seen with polysaccharide vaccines. ACWY conjugate vaccines also interfere with transmission and reduce nasopharyngeal colonization, thus resulting in significant herd protection. Advances in serogroup B vaccine development have also occurred using conserved outer membrane proteins with or without OMV as vaccine targets. Challenges for meningococcal vaccine research remain including developing combination vaccines containing ACYW(X) and B, determining the ideal booster schedules for the conjugate and MenB vaccines, and addressing issues of waning effectiveness.

Indexed as

Drug DevelopmentEpidemicsGlobal HealthHumansImmunization ScheduleImmunization, SecondaryImmunogenicity, VaccineMeningococcal InfectionsMeningococcal VaccinesMortalityNeisseria meningitidisPractice Guidelines as TopicSerogroupVaccinationVaccines, CombinedVaccines, ConjugateMeningococcal VaccinesVaccines, CombinedVaccines, ConjugateepidemiologymeningitismeningococcemiaNeisseria meningitidispolysaccharide- protein conjugate vaccinepolysaccharide vaccines

Identifiers

PMID29543582
PMCPMC6067816
OpenAlexW2794106963

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