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ReviewMicrobes and infection2015

Ebola virus disease: a highly fatal infectious disease reemerging in West Africa.

Kelvin K W To, Jasper F W Chan, Alan K L Tsang, Vincent C C Cheng, Kwok-Yung Yuen

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Review in Microbes and infection, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

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

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  8. Travel/Tropical Medicine and Pandemic Considerations for the Global Surgeon.Oral and maxillofacial surgery clinics of North America · 2020
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  9. Ebola virus: A global public health menace: A narrative review.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2019
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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

5 authors.

Kelvin K W ToState Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; Carol Yu Centre for Infection, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; Research Centre of Infection and Immunology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Jasper F W ChanState Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; Carol Yu Centre for Infection, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; Research Centre of Infection and Immunology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Alan K L TsangDepartment of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Vincent C C ChengDepartment of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Kwok-Yung YuenState Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; Carol Yu Centre for Infection, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; Research Centre of Infection and Immunology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. Electronic address: kyyuen@hku.hk.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ebolavirus can cause a highly fatal and panic-generating human disease which may jump from bats to other mammals and human. High viral loads in body fluids allow efficient transmission by contact. Lack of effective antivirals, vaccines and public health infrastructures in parts of Africa make it difficult to health workers to contain the outbreak.

Indexed as

Disease OutbreaksAfrica, WesternAnimalsDisease VectorsEbolavirusHemorrhagic Fever, EbolaHumansPhylogenyEbolavirusEbola virus diseaseOutbreakWest Africa

Identifiers

PMID25456100
PMCPMC7110538

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