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ArticleThe Journal of infectious diseases2015

Large-scale convalescent blood and plasma transfusion therapy for Ebola virus disease.

Robert L Colebunders, Robert O Cannon

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Article in The Journal of infectious diseases, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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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

12 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The Use of Ebola Convalescent Plasma to Treat Ebola Virus Disease in Resource-Constrained Settings: A Perspective From the Field.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2016
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  8. Convalescent plasma: new evidence for an old therapeutic tool?Blood transfusion = Trasfusione del sangue · 2016
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  11. Plasma therapy against infectious pathogens, as of yesterday, today and tomorrow.Transfusion clinique et biologique : journal de la Societe francaise de transfusion sanguine · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Robert L ColebundersDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Robert O CannonEpidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

EbolavirusHemorrhagic Fever, EbolaHumansblood transfusionsEbola virus diseaseplasma transfusiontreatment

Identifiers

PMID25635120

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