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ArticleHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2020

Letter to the editor: female sex workers and HPV vaccine.

Maarten F Schim van der Loeff, Alex Vorsters, Elske Marra, Pierre Van Damme, Arjan Hogewoning

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Article in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 41% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Maarten F Schim van der LoeffDepartment of Infectious Disease, Public Health Service Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Alex VorstersCentre for the Evaluation of Vaccination, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
Elske MarraDepartment of Infectious Disease, Public Health Service Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Pierre Van DammeCentre for the Evaluation of Vaccination, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
Arjan HogewoningDepartment of Infectious Disease, Public Health Service Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
GGD Amsterdam · NLUniversity of Antwerp · BEUniversity of Amsterdam · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

When considering what the scientific evidence is for the potential added value to offer HPV vaccines to sex workers, not only its potential role for female sex workers should be examined, but its role for all those who conduct sex work. Our initial paper looked at the evidence in terms of HPV vaccine immunogenicity, efficacy, effect on transmission, induction of mucosal immunity, and not at implementation. Brown and Cabral considered our omission to address the aspects of implementation an 'academic mistake'. We disagree; implementation aspects are complex and require analyses of multiple barriers, and how to address these. It only makes sense to discuss these if there is scientific evidence for its implementation; otherwise offering the vaccine is not useful.

Indexed as

Papillomavirus InfectionsPapillomavirus VaccinesSex WorkersFemaleHumansImmunogenicity, VaccineVaccinationPapillomavirus VaccineseffectivenessHuman papillomavirussex workervaccine

Identifiers

PMID31348738
PMCPMC7012104
OpenAlexW2965522152

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Registered trials

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