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ArticleCurrent opinion in virology2013

Virus discovery: one step beyond.

Saskia L Smits, Albert Dme Osterhaus

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Article in Current opinion in virology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
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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

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

17 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. AnViruses · 2025
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  4. Understanding and overcoming the pitfalls and biases of next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods for use in the routine clinical microbiological diagnostic laboratory.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2019
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  5. Virological and Immunological Outcomes of Coinfections.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2018
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  11. Human bocavirus infection as a cause of severe acute respiratory tract infection in children.Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases · 2015
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  16. Assembly of viral genomes from metagenomes.Frontiers in microbiology · 2014
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Saskia L SmitsViroClinics Biosciences B.V., Marconistraat 16, 3029 AK Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Virology, Erasmus Medical Center, P.O. Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Albert Dme OsterhausViroClinics Biosciences B.V., Marconistraat 16, 3029 AK Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Virology, Erasmus Medical Center, P.O. Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: a.osterhaus@erasmusmc.nl.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent advances in the metagenomics field have had huge effects on the identification and characterization of newly emerging viral pathogens. To allow timely and efficient responses to future viral threats, an integrated multidisciplinary approach utilizing expertises in several areas, including clinical assessment, virus surveillance, virus discovery, pathogenesis, and the molecular basis of the host response to infection, is required. It requires the scientific community involved in virus discovery to go one step beyond.

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PMID23578938
PMCPMC7102788

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