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ArticlemBio2015

Comments on Fouchier's calculation of risk and elapsed time for escape of a laboratory-acquired infection from his laboratory.

Lynn C Klotz

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Article in mBio, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing 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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Biosafety, biosecurity, and bioethics.Monash bioethics review · 2024
    Review
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  3. Underprotection of Unpredictable Statistical Lives Compared to Predictable Ones.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Lynn C KlotzCenter for Arms Control and Non-proliferation, Washington, DC, USA lynnklotz@live.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Biomedical ResearchInfluenza A virusMiddle East Respiratory Syndrome CoronavirusPandemicsSevere acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirusVirus Diseases

Identifiers

PMID25873376
PMCPMC4453553

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Registered trials

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