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ArticleClinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2014

Editorial commentary: varicella zoster virus infection: generally benign in kids, bad in grown-ups.

Maria Nagel, Don Gilden

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Article in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. Clinical spectrum and outcomes of adult varicella (chickenpox) in India.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2025
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  7. Herpes Zoster in the Older Adult.Infectious disease clinics of North America · 2017
    Review
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  9. Unseen face of varicella-zoster infection in adults.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2016
    Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Maria NagelDepartment of Neurology.
Don Gilden
University of Colorado Denver · US

Funding

VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS VASCULOPATHY: CHANGING CLINICAL PRACTICEP01AG032958 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI MAHALINGAM, RAVI · 2009 to 2023
$30.3M
NEUROBIOLOGY OF VARICELLA-ZOSTER VIRUSR01AG006127 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI GILDEN, DONALD · 1987 to 2014
$4.2M
NEUROBIOLOGY OF VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUSR37AG006127 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI GILDEN, DONALD H · 1995 to 2004
$2.3M
Mechanisms by which VZV IE proteins interact with cell antiviral proteins to prevK08NS067070 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI NAGEL, MARIA ACENA · 2009 to 2013
$895k
NIA NIH HHS AG006127NIA NIH HHS AG032958NIA NIH HHS P01 AG032958NIA NIH HHS R01 AG006127NIA NIH HHS R37 AG006127NINDS NIH HHS K08 NS067070NINDS NIH HHS NS067070
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

FemaleHerpes ZosterHumansMaleStrokegiant cell arteritisstroke

Identifiers

PMID24700655
PMCPMC4017890
OpenAlexW2323458584

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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