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ReviewPLoS medicine2025

Vaccines to prevent bacterial sexually transmitted infections: Promise, progress, and public health potential.

Sami L Gottlieb, Helen Rees, Remco P H Peters

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In one paragraph

Review in PLoS medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. The Global Syphilis Epidemic: Turning the Tide.Sexually transmitted diseases · 2026
    Article
  3. Review
  4. Article
  5. Pyocyanin reversibly inhibitsFrontiers in pharmacology · 2026
    Article
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

3 authors.

Sami L GottliebWorld Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-3441
Helen ReesWits RHI, Johannesburg, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1442-6734
Remco P H PetersWorld Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5955-0815

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Asymptomatic transmission, inequitable access to diagnostics, and rising antimicrobial resistance are major barriers to controlling the bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis. Developing vaccines against these infections has therefore become a key STI research priority, requiring innovative research, expedited clinical development, and increased investment.

Indexed as

Bacterial VaccinesPublic HealthSexually Transmitted DiseasesSexually Transmitted Diseases, BacterialChlamydia InfectionsGonorrheaHumansSyphilisBacterial Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID41364628
PMCPMC12688108

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.