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ArticleVaccines2021

Persistence of Pneumococcal Serotype 3 in Adult Pneumococcal Disease in Hong Kong.

Reema Subramanian, Veranja Liyanapathirana, Nilakshi Barua, Rui Sun, Maggie Haitian Wang, Rita Ng, Edmund A S Nelson, David S Hui, Margaret Ip

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Article in Vaccines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 26% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 12 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

9 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Reema SubramanianDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
Veranja LiyanapathiranaDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
Nilakshi BaruaDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7007-5433
Rui SunCentre for Clinical Research and Biostatistics, Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Maggie Haitian WangCentre for Clinical Research and Biostatistics, Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Rita NgDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
Edmund A S NelsonDepartment of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2521-3403
David S HuiDepartment of Medicine & Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Margaret IpDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1291-6537
Chinese University of Hong Kong · HKSun Yat-sen University · CNUniversity of Peradeniya · LK

Funding

Pfizer Health Research Foundation TP1712042
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The epidemiology of hospitalised pneumococcal disease in adults following the introduction of universal childhood pneumococcal immunisation in 2009 was assessed. Culture-confirmed

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adultspneumococcal diseasepneumoniarisk factorsserotype 3

Identifiers

PMID34358172
PMCPMC8310027
OpenAlexW3178148815

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