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ArticleInternational journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases2015

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome--need for increased vigilance and watchful surveillance for MERS-CoV in sub-Saharan Africa.

Alimuddin Zumla, Roxana Rustomjee, Francine Ntoumi, Peter Mwaba, Matthew Bates, Markus Maeurer, David S Hui, Eskild Petersen

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Article in International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 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

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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

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).Infectious disease clinics of North America · 2019
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  5. Impact of infectious disease epidemics on tuberculosis diagnostic, management, and prevention services: experiences and lessons from the 2014-2015 Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2017
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  8. Taking forward a 'One Health' approach for turning the tide against the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus and other zoonotic pathogens with epidemic potential.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2016
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  9. Zika virus outbreak and the case for building effective and sustainable rapid diagnostics laboratory capacity globally.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2016
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  10. Pneumo news · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Alimuddin ZumlaDivision of Infection and Immunity, University College London, and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: a.zumla@ucl.ac.u.
Roxana RustomjeeSouth Africa Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa. Electronic address: Roxana.Rustomjee@mrc.ac.za.
Francine NtoumiFondation Congolaise pour la Recherche Médicale, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. Electronic address: fntoumi@fcrm-congo.com.
Peter MwabaUNZA-UCLMS Research and Training Project, University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia. Electronic address: pbmwaba2000@gmail.com.
Matthew BatesUNZA-UCLMS Research and Training Project, University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia. Electronic address: matthew.bates@ucl.ac.uk.
Markus MaeurerTherapeutic Immunology, Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Microbiology, Tumour and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Electronic address: Markus.Maeurer@ki.se.
David S HuiDivision of Respiratory Medicine and Stanley Ho Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China. Electronic address: dschui@cuhk.edu.hk.
Eskild PetersenDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Aarhus University Hospital Skejby, Aarhus, Denmark. Electronic address: eskildp@dadlnet.dk.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID26141416
PMCPMC7129130

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