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ReviewThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2014

Review article: Research on dengue during World War II revisited.

Grace E Snow, Benjamin Haaland, Eng Eong Ooi, Duane J Gubler

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In one paragraph

Review in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
45citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

45 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 85 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Grace E SnowDuke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina; Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Office of Clinical Sciences, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, and Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, Singapore.
Benjamin HaalandDuke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina; Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Office of Clinical Sciences, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, and Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, Singapore.
Eng Eong OoiDuke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina; Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Office of Clinical Sciences, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, and Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, Singapore.
Duane J GublerDuke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina; Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Office of Clinical Sciences, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, and Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, Singapore duane.gubler@duke-nus.edu.sg.
Duke University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Much of the basic clinical information about dengue infection comes from experimental human studies conducted in the 1920s and 1940s. Albert Sabin's original laboratory records from one such study were bequeathed to Duane J. Gubler. These records were reviewed and 150 experiments were included in our analyses. Persons were inoculated with dengue virus 1 (DENV-1) and DENV-2. Median fever duration was shorter in primary DENV-2 infections compared with DENV-1, although maximum temperature and severity of illness were comparable. At 1.5-9 months after primary infection, 20 persons were inoculated with the heterologous serotype. Only one person inoculated with a heterologous serotype at < 8 weeks showed development of a clinical infection with a maximum temperature of 38°C, and 7 (88%) of 8 persons inoculated with a heterologous serotype at 4-9 months post-primary infection showed development of fever. On average, persons had a shorter incubation period in secondary infection compared with primary infection.

Indexed as

World War IIAnimalsCulicidaeDengueHistory, 20th CenturyHumansInsect Vectors

Identifiers

PMID25311700
PMCPMC4257648
OpenAlexW2028047125

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