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ReviewMicrobes and infection

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV): challenges in identifying its source and controlling its spread.

Lu Lu, Qi Liu, Lanying Du, Shibo Jiang

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Review in Microbes and infection. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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53citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

53 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  12. The history of the emergence and transmission of human coronaviruses.The Onderstepoort journal of veterinary research · 2021
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  16. Coronavirus Disease 2019-COVID-19.Clinical microbiology reviews · 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

4 authors.

Lu LuKey Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of Ministries of Education and Health, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.
Qi Liu
Lanying Du
Shibo Jiang

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), a novel human coronavirus that caused outbreaks of a SARS-like illness in the Middle East, is now considered a threat to global public health. This review discusses the challenges in identifying the source of this fatal virus and developing effective and safe anti-MERS-CoV vaccines and therapeutics in order to control its spread and to combat any future pandemic.

Indexed as

Disease OutbreaksAfricaCommunicable Disease ControlCoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsEuropeHumansMiddle EastRespiratory Tract InfectionsCoronavirusMERS-CoVSARS-CoVSourceTherapeuticsVaccine

Identifiers

PMID23791956
PMCPMC7110483

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