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ArticlemBio2014

Concerns about misinterpretation of recent scientific data implicating dromedary camels in epidemiology of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).

Emad M Samara, Khalid A Abdoun

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Article in mBio, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing 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

16 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. The COVID-19 pandemic - How many times were we warned before?European journal of internal medicine · 2022
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  5. Coronavirus Infections of Animals: Future Risks to Humans.Biology bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences · 2021
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  9. Zoonotic origins of human coronaviruses.International journal of biological sciences · 2020
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  12. Middle East respiratory syndrome.Lancet (London, England) · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Emad M SamaraDepartment of Animal Production, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia dremas@ksu.edu.sa.
Khalid A AbdounDepartment of Animal Production, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Disease ReservoirsGenome, ViralAnimalsCamelusCoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsHumansMiddle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus

Identifiers

PMID25006231
PMCPMC4161258

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