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ReviewNature2012

Emerging fungal threats to animal, plant and ecosystem health.

Matthew C Fisher, Daniel A Henk, Cheryl J Briggs, John S Brownstein, Lawrence C Madoff, Sarah L McCraw, Sarah J Gurr

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In one paragraph

Review in Nature, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1,162 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1,162citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
72.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

1,162 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 3,243 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Matthew C FisherDepartment of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College, London W2 1PG, UK. matthew.fisher@imperial.ac.uk
Daniel A Henk
Cheryl J Briggs
John S Brownstein
Lawrence C Madoff
Sarah L McCraw
Sarah J Gurr
Imperial College London · GBUniversity of Oxford · GBHarvard University · USInternational Society for Infectious Diseases · USUniversity of California, Santa Barbara · US

Funding

A Platform for Modeling the Global Impact of Climate Change on Infectious DiseaseR01LM010812 · NLM · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI BROWNSTEIN, JOHN S. · 2010 to 2015
$2.5M
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/E00282X/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/G00207X/1NLM NIH HHS 5R01LM010812-02NLM NIH HHS R01 LM010812Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The past two decades have seen an increasing number of virulent infectious diseases in natural populations and managed landscapes. In both animals and plants, an unprecedented number of fungal and fungal-like diseases have recently caused some of the most severe die-offs and extinctions ever witnessed in wild species, and are jeopardizing food security. Human activity is intensifying fungal disease dispersal by modifying natural environments and thus creating new opportunities for evolution. We argue that nascent fungal infections will cause increasing attrition of biodiversity, with wider implications for human and ecosystem health, unless steps are taken to tighten biosecurity worldwide.

Indexed as

EcosystemAnimalsCommunicable Diseases, EmergingExtinction, BiologicalFood SupplyFungiHumansMycosesPlantsVirulence

Identifiers

PMID22498624
PMCPMC3821985
OpenAlexW2137037625

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Registered trials

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