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ReviewOpen forum infectious diseases2024

Immunogenicity of Current and Next-Generation Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines in Children: Current Challenges and Upcoming Opportunities.

Kristen Feemster, Ulrike K Buchwald, Natalie Banniettis, Joseph G Joyce, Priscilla Velentgas, Timothy J Chapman, Inci Yildirim

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Review in Open forum infectious diseases, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  9. Erratum: Pneumococcal Vaccination of Adults in Italy: What Strategies?Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2025
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  10. Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2025
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  13. Recommendations on PCV20 vaccine in adults and at-risk populations.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025
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  15. Pneumococcal Vaccination of Adults in Italy: What Strategies?Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Kristen FeemsterMerck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co, Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA.
Ulrike K BuchwaldMerck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co, Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA.
Natalie BanniettisMerck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co, Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA.
Joseph G JoyceMerck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co, Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA.
Priscilla VelentgasMerck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co, Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA.
Timothy J ChapmanMerck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co, Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA.
Inci YildirimDepartment of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Global use of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) with increasingly broader serotype coverage has helped to reduce the burden of pneumococcal disease in children and adults. In clinical studies comparing PCVs, higher-valency PCVs have met noninferiority criteria (based on immunoglobulin G geometric mean concentrations and response rates) for most shared serotypes. A numeric trend of declining immunogenicity against shared serotypes with higher-valency PCVs has also been observed; however, the clinical relevance is uncertain, warranting additional research to evaluate the effectiveness of new vaccines. Novel conjugation processes, carriers, adjuvants, and vaccine platforms are approaches that could help maintain or improve immunogenicity and subsequent vaccine effectiveness while achieving broader protection with increasing valency in pneumococcal vaccines.

Indexed as

immunogenicity declinePCVspneumococcal vaccinesStreptococcus pneumoniaevaccine effectiveness

Identifiers

PMID38770212
PMCPMC11103622

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