Evidence map›Paper›PMID 41936574›Full record

ArticleEpidemiology and infection2026

Invasive meningococcal B disease: Spatiotemporal cluster identification using finetype data, the Netherlands, 2005-2023.

Marta Bertran, Jan van de Kassteele, Linda J Visser, Mirjam J Knol, Hester E de Melker, Nina M van Sorge, Anneke Steens

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Epidemiology and infection, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing 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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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

7 authors.

Marta BertranCentre for Infectious Disease Control, https://ror.org/01cesdt21National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6226-1172
Jan van de KassteeleCentre for Infectious Disease Control, https://ror.org/01cesdt21National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands.
Linda J VisserCentre for Infectious Disease Control, https://ror.org/01cesdt21National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands.
Mirjam J KnolCentre for Infectious Disease Control, https://ror.org/01cesdt21National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands.
Hester E de MelkerCentre for Infectious Disease Control, https://ror.org/01cesdt21National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands.
Nina M van SorgeAmsterdam Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, https://ror.org/03t4gr691Amsterdam UMC Location AMC, Netherlands.
Anneke SteensCentre for Infectious Disease Control, https://ror.org/01cesdt21National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7474-1149

Funding

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control EPIET Fellowship Programme
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study assessed whether systematically using finetype data in national surveillance of invasive meningococcal disease serogroup B (IMD-B) in the Netherlands could improve cluster detection in order to prevent further cases through public health actions. We analysed 2005-2023 data, including 1,642 IMD-B cases with complete finetype and municipality information (95%;

Indexed as

Meningococcal InfectionsNeisseria meningitidis, Serogroup BCluster AnalysisHumansMultilocus Sequence TypingNetherlandsSpatio-Temporal Analysisclustersfinetypingmeningococcal disease serogroup BNeisseria meningitidisSaTScan

Identifiers

PMID41936574
PMCPMC13100928

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

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.