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ReviewThe Journal of clinical investigation2004

West Nile virus: a growing concern?

L Hannah Gould, Erol Fikrig

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Review in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40citing papers in PubMed
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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

40 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. West Nile virus unmasked: from gene variability to future challenges.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025
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  6. Mathematical modeling in perspective of vector-borne viral infections: a review.Beni-Suef University journal of basic and applied sciences · 2022
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  9. Animal and Human Vaccines against West Nile Virus.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
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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

2 authors.

L Hannah GouldDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health and Section of Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
Erol Fikrig

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

West Nile virus was first detected in North America in 1999 and has subsequently spread throughout the United States and Canada and into Mexico and the Caribbean. This review describes the epidemiology and ecology of West Nile virus in North America and the prospects for effective treatments and vaccines.

Indexed as

AnimalsEcologyHumansViral VaccinesWest Nile FeverWest Nile virusViral Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID15085186
PMCPMC385414

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