Evidence map›Paper›PMID 23334178›Full record

ReviewVirulence2013

Rise of the microbes.

Michael J Mahan, Jessica Z Kubicek-Sutherland, Douglas M Heithoff

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Review in Virulence, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing 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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Foodborne Infections andVaccines · 2024
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  7. The Role of Indigenous Epidemic Folk Stories in Shaping Adaptive Disease-Related Behaviors in West Papua.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior
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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

3 authors.

Michael J MahanDepartment of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. mahan@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Jessica Z Kubicek-Sutherland
Douglas M Heithoff

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infectious diseases continue to plague the modern world. In the evolutionary arms race of pathogen emergence, the rules of engagement appear to have suddenly changed. Human activities have collided with nature to hasten the emergence of more potent pathogens from natural microbial populations. This is evident in recent infectious disease outbreaks, the events that led to their origin, and lessons learned: influenza (2009), meningitis (Africa, 2009), cholera (Haiti, 2010), E. coli (Germany, 2011) and Salmonella (USA, 2012). Developing a comprehensive control plan requires an understanding of the genetics, epidemiology and evolution of emergent pathogens for which humans have little or no pre-existing immunity. As we plot our next move, nature's genetic lottery continues, providing the fuel to transform the most unlikely infectious disease scenarios into reality.

Indexed as

AnimalsBacteriaCommunicable DiseasesDisease OutbreaksHumansVirusescholeraemerging pathogenshypervirulenceinfectious disease outbreaksinfluenzameningitismicrobial pathogenesisSalmonellaShiga toxin-producing E. colivaccines

Identifiers

PMID23334178
PMCPMC3711979

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