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ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2017

Infectious Agents As Markers of Human Migration toward the Amazon Region of Brazil.

Ricardo Ishak, Luiz F A Machado, Izaura Cayres-Vallinoto, Marluísa de O Guimarães Ishak, Antonio C R Vallinoto

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Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 2 of them syntheses 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

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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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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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.

Ricardo IshakVirus Laboratory, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of ParaBelem, Brazil.
Luiz F A MachadoVirus Laboratory, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of ParaBelem, Brazil.
Izaura Cayres-VallinotoVirus Laboratory, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of ParaBelem, Brazil.
Marluísa de O Guimarães IshakVirus Laboratory, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of ParaBelem, Brazil.
Antonio C R VallinotoVirus Laboratory, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of ParaBelem, Brazil.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infectious agents are common companions of humans and since ancient times they follow human migration on their search for a better place to live. The study of paleomicrobiology was significantly improved in its accuracy of measurement with the constant development of better methods to detect and analyze nucleic acids. Human tissues are constantly used to trace ancient infections and the association of anthropological evidences are important to confirm the microbiological information. Infectious agents which establish human persistent infections are particularly useful to trace human migrations. In the present article, the evidence of infection by viral agents such as human T-lymphotropic virus 1, human T-lymphotropic virus 2, human herpes virus-8, JC virus, and a bacterium,

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Amazonbiomarkersepidemiologyhuman migrationinfectious agents

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PMID28912770
PMCPMC5583215

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