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ArticleViruses2012

Co-circulation of four human coronaviruses (HCoVs) in Queensland children with acute respiratory tract illnesses in 2004.

Ian M Mackay, Katherine E Arden, David J Speicher, Nicholas T O'Neil, Peter K McErlean, Ristan M Greer, Michael D Nissen, Theo P Sloots

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Article in Viruses, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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28citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Ian M MackayQueensland Paediatric Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Queensland Children's Medical Research Institute, Sir Albert Sakzewski Virus Research Centre, Children's Health Service, University of Queensland, Herston 4029, Australia. ian.mackay@uq.edu.au
Katherine E Arden
David J Speicher
Nicholas T O'Neil
Peter K McErlean
Ristan M Greer
Michael D Nissen
Theo P Sloots
Children's Medical Research Institute · AUQueensland Health · AUGriffith University · AUNorthwestern University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute respiratory illnesses (ARIs) with unconfirmed infectious aetiologies peak at different times of the year. Molecular diagnostic assays reduce the number of unconfirmed ARIs compared to serology- or culture-based techniques. Screening of 888 inpatient and outpatient respiratory specimens spanning late autumn through to early spring, 2004, identified the presence of a human coronavirus (HCoV) on 74 occasions (8.3% of all specimens and 26.3% of all respiratory virus detections). Prevalence peaked in August (late winter in the southern hemisphere) when they were detected in 21.9% of specimens tested. HCoV-HKU1 and HCoV-OC43 comprised 82.4% of all HCoVs detected. Positive specimens were used to develop novel reverse transcriptase real-time PCRs (RT-rtPCRs) for HCoV detection. An objective clinical severity score was assigned to each positive HCoV patient. Severity scores were similar to those from a random selection of young children who were positive for respiratory syncytial virus at a different time but from the same specimen population. During the cooler months of 2004, sensitive and specific RT-rtPCRs identified the concurrent circulation of all four HCoVs, a quarter of which co-occurred with another virus and most of which were from children under the age of two years.

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AdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overChildChild, PreschoolClinical Laboratory TechniquesCoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsFemaleHumansInfantInfant, NewbornMaleMiddle AgedMolecular Sequence Dataclinical impactcoronavirusHCoV-229EHCoV-HKU1HCoV-NL63HCoV-OC43real-time PCRrespiratory virus

Identifiers

PMID22590689
PMCPMC3347326
OpenAlexW2097964743

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