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ArticleNature2020

Childhood vaccines and antibiotic use in low- and middle-income countries.

Joseph A Lewnard, Nathan C Lo, Nimalan Arinaminpathy, Isabel Frost, Ramanan Laxminarayan

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Article in Nature, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 77 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
77citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
12.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

77 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 136 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Antimicrobial resistance in paediatricThe Lancet. Microbe · 2021
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  4. Prevention of antimicrobial prescribing among infants following maternal vaccination against respiratory syncytial virus.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  7. Global vaccine development.Nature medicine · 2026
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17 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

5 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Joseph A LewnardDivision of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. jlewnard@berkeley.edu.
Nathan C LoDepartment of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5407-2005
Nimalan ArinaminpathySchool of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Isabel FrostSchool of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Ramanan LaxminarayanCenter for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, New Delhi, India.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1390-9016
Berkeley College · USCenter for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy · INImperial College London · GBPrinceton University · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/R015600/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vaccines may reduce the burden of antimicrobial resistance, in part by preventing infections for which treatment often includes the use of antibiotics

Indexed as

Anti-Bacterial AgentsVaccinesChild, PreschoolDeveloping CountriesDiarrheaDrug Resistance, MicrobialDrug UtilizationHumansIncidencePneumococcal VaccinesRespiratory Tract InfectionsRotavirus VaccinesWorld Health OrganizationAnti-Bacterial AgentsPneumococcal VaccinesRotavirus VaccinesVaccines

Identifiers

PMID32376956
PMCPMC7332418
OpenAlexW3020979633

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Registered trials

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