MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort
Record W4412045582 · doi:10.1186/s12879-025-11275-w

Immunogenicity and safety of the domestic and imported live-attenuated varicella vaccine in healthy Chinese populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis

2025· review· en· W4412045582 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Yemin Yuan, Tong Wang, Yiqi Xia, Zhenyu Shi, Ping He

Bibliographic record

VenueBMC Infectious Diseases · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicHerpesvirus Infections and Treatments
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNational Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences
KeywordsImmunogenicityMedical microbiologyVaricella vaccineVirologyMedicineMeta-analysisParasitologyChickenpox VaccineVaccine safetyAttenuated vaccineImmunologyBiologyImmunizationAntibodyInternal medicinePathologyGene

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to synthesize existing evidence to compare the immunogenicity and safety of domestic and imported live-attenuated varicella vaccine (VarV) in healthy Chinese populations. METHODS: We searched PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, China National Knowledge Internet (CNKI), Wan Fang Database, and Chinese Biomedical Literature Service System (SinoMed) using predefined search terms to identify relevant studies. Retrieve all language articles up to March 15, 2024. Articles reported varicella vaccination in healthy Chinese populations were included. We calculated the pooled rates of seroconversions and adverse events using the random effects model and assessed the quality of each study using the modified Jadad Scale and Newcastle Ottawa Scale (NOS). Publication bias was evaluated using Egger's regression test. RESULTS: In our immunogenicity analysis, which included 16,655 Chinese individuals from 21 studies, the pooled seroconversion rate was 89% (95%CI: 86-91%) for domestic VarV and 93% (95%CI: 88-98%) for imported Varv, with no statistically significant difference. In our safety analysis, which included 29,696 Chinese individuals from 25 studies, the pooled rate of systemic reactions was higher for domestic Varv (11%, 95%CI: 10-13%) than for imported Varv (8%, 95%CI: 6-10%; P < 0.001), while the results for local reactions were the opposite (domestic Varv: 3%, 95%CI: 2-3%; imported Varv: 7%, 95%CI: 3-10%; P = 0.020). The results are based on pooled proportions rather than direct comparison. Egger's test suggested that publication bias was not negligible. CONCLUSIONS: Both domestic and imported varicella vaccines appear to be generally immunogenic and safe in healthy Chinese populations. However, due to limited and heterogeneous data on imported vaccines, further high-quality studies are needed to validate these comparative findings.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.017
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.038
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Meta-analysis · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.018
Threshold uncertainty score0.088

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0170.038
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0180.030
Bibliometrics0.0080.008
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0040.002
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0020.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.040
GPT teacher head0.377
Teacher spread0.336 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designMeta-analysis
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

Quick stats

Citations1
Published2025
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

Explore more

Same venueBMC Infectious DiseasesSame topicHerpesvirus Infections and TreatmentsFrench-language works237,207