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ArticleThe Veterinary record2015

Endemic zoonoses in the tropics: a public health problem hiding in plain sight.

Jo E B Halliday, Kathryn J Allan, Divine Ekwem, Sarah Cleaveland, Rudovick R Kazwala, John A Crump

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Article in The Veterinary record, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

51 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Jo E B HallidayCollege of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.
Kathryn J AllanCollege of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.
Divine EkwemCollege of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.
Sarah CleavelandCollege of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.
Rudovick R KazwalaFaculty of Veterinary Medicine, Sokoine University of Agriculture, P. O. Box 3015, Chuo Kikuu, Morogoro, Tanzania.
John A CrumpCentre for International Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand.

Funding

The Impact and Society Ecology of Bacterial Zoonoses in Northern Tanzania: UnderR01TW009237 · FIC · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI CRUMP, JOHN ANDREW · 2011 to 2014
$1.7M
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/J010367/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/L017679Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/L018845Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/L018845/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/L018926/1FIC NIH HHS 01TW009237FIC NIH HHS R01 TW009237Wellcome Trust 096400/Z/11/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Zoonotic diseases are a significant burden on animal and human health, particularly in developing countries. Despite recognition of this fact, endemic zoonoses often remain undiagnosed in people, instead being mistaken for febrile diseases such as malaria. Here, as part of Veterinary Record's ongoing series of articles on One Health, a multidisciplinary team of researchers from Scotland, Tanzania and New Zealand argues that a One Health approach is needed to effectively combat these diseases.

Indexed as

Endemic DiseasesPublic HealthAnimalsHumansTanzaniaTropical MedicineVeterinary MedicineZoonoses

Identifiers

PMID25722334
PMCPMC4350138

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