The pneumococcal problem.

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.

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.

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Efficacy of pneumococcal vaccination in adults: a meta-analysis.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2009
   Pooled it
2. The 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine. Part I. Efficacy of PPV in the elderly: a comparison of meta-analyses.European journal of epidemiology · 2004
   Pooled it
3. Are the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines effective? Meta-analysis of the prospective trials.BMC family practice · 2000
   Pooled it
4. Clinical effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccine. Meta-analysis.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 1999
   Pooled it
5. Efficacy of face masks and respirators in preventing upper respiratory tract bacterial colonization and co-infection in hospital healthcare workers.Preventive medicine · 2014
   Trial
6. Sentinel surveillance for bacterial pneumonia and meningitis in children under the age of 5 in a tertiary pediatric hospital in Colombia - 2016.Biomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud · 2021
   Article
7. Bacterial Spectrum of Spontaneously Ruptured Otitis Media in a 7-Year, Longitudinal, Multicenter, Epidemiological Cross-Sectional Study in Germany.Frontiers in medicine · 2021
   Article
8. Nasopharyngeal Carriage in Children After the Introduction of Generalized Infant Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Immunization in Germany.Frontiers in medicine · 2021
   Article
9. Control of Streptococcal Infections: Is a Common Vaccine Target Achievable AgainstFrontiers in microbiology · 2021
   Review
10. Isolation of antimicrobial resistant bacteria in upper respiratory tract infections of patients.3 Biotech · 2016
    Article
11. Bacterial spectrum of spontaneously ruptured otitis media in the era of pneumococcal conjugate vaccination in Germany.European journal of pediatrics · 2015
    Article
12. Coinfection with Streptococcus pneumoniae modulates the B cell response to influenza virus.Journal of virology · 2014
    Article
13. Antibody and plasmablast response to 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients--preliminary report.PloS one · 2014
    Article
14. The association of positive chest radiograph and laboratory parameters with community acquired pneumonia in children.Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR · 2013
    Article
15. Complete genome sequence of a serotype 11A, ST62 Streptococcus pneumoniae invasive isolate.BMC microbiology · 2011
    Article
16. Structure of the full-length major pilin from Streptococcus pneumoniae: implications for isopeptide bond formation in gram-positive bacterial pili.PloS one · 2011
    Article
17. Capsular serotype and antibiotic resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in Malaysia.PloS one · 2011
    Article
18. Contribution of serotype and genetic background to biofilm formation by Streptococcus pneumoniae.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2011
    Article
19. Low-cost, high-throughput, automated counting of bacterial colonies.Cytometry. Part A : the journal of the International Society for Analytical Cytology · 2010
    Article
20. An automatic method for identifying surface proteins in bacteria: SLEP.BMC bioinformatics · 2010
    Article

Corrections and comments

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  Blood culture is poor method of confirming pneumococcus as cause of childhood pneumonia.1996

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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