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ArticleVaccine2018

Production and efficacy of a low-cost recombinant pneumococcal protein polysaccharide conjugate vaccine.

Jenny A Herbert, Emily J Kay, Sian E Faustini, Alex Richter, Sherif Abouelhadid, Jon Cuccui, Brendan Wren, Timothy J Mitchell

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Article in Vaccine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

23 citing papers in PubMed, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Jenny A HerbertInstitute of Microbiology and Infection, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, UK.
Emily J KayDepartment of Pathogen Molecular Biology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Sian E FaustiniInstitute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, UK; Department of Immunology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK.
Alex RichterInstitute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, UK; Department of Immunology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK; University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK.
Sherif AbouelhadidDepartment of Pathogen Molecular Biology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Jon CuccuiDepartment of Pathogen Molecular Biology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Brendan WrenDepartment of Pathogen Molecular Biology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Timothy J MitchellInstitute of Microbiology and Infection, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, UK. Electronic address: t.j.mitchell@bham.ac.uk.
University of Birmingham · GBLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine · GBUniversity of London · GBQueen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/K012053/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Streptococcus pneumoniae is the leading cause of bacterial pneumonia. Although this is a vaccine preventable disease, S. pneumoniae still causes over 1 million deaths per year, mainly in children under the age of five. The biggest disease burden is in the developing world, which is mainly due to unavailability of vaccines due to their high costs. Protein polysaccharide conjugate vaccines are given routinely in the developed world to children to induce a protective antibody response against S. pneumoniae. One of these vaccines is Prevnar13, which targets 13 of the 95 known capsular types. Current vaccine production requires growth of large amounts of the 13 serotypes, and isolation of the capsular polysaccharide that is then chemically coupled to a protein, such as the diphtheria toxoid CRM

Indexed as

AnimalsDisease Models, AnimalEscherichia coliFemaleMicePneumococcal VaccinesPneumonia, PneumococcalPolysaccharides, BacterialStreptococcus pneumoniaeTechnology, PharmaceuticalTreatment OutcomeVaccines, ConjugateVaccines, SyntheticPneumococcal VaccinesPolysaccharides, BacterialVaccines, ConjugateVaccines, SyntheticConjugate vaccineGlycoengineeringPneumoniaProtein glycan coupling technologyStreptococcus pneumoniae

Identifiers

PMID29778517
PMCPMC5999350
OpenAlexW2804745624

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