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ReviewILAR journal2017

Are RNA Viruses Candidate Agents for the Next Global Pandemic? A Review.

R Carrasco-Hernandez, Rodrigo Jácome, Yolanda López Vidal, Samuel Ponce de León

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Review in ILAR journal, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 108 papers.

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108citing 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

108 citing papers in PubMed.

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  15. Comprehensive Review on Viral RNA Extraction Strategies for Enhanced Molecular Diagnostics.Interdisciplinary perspectives on infectious diseases · 2025
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48 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

4 authors.

R Carrasco-HernandezR. Carrasco-Hernandez, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Microbiome Laboratory in the Postgraduate Division of the Faculty of Medicine at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CDMX.
Rodrigo JácomeRodrigo Jácome, MD, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Microbiome Laboratory in the Postgraduate Division of the Faculty of Medicine at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CDMX.
Yolanda López VidalYolanda López-Vidal, MD, PhD, is an associate professor "C" and is responsible for the Program of Microbial Molecular Immunology in the Department of Microbiology and Parasitology of the Faculty of Medicine at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CDMX.
Samuel Ponce de LeónSamuel Ponce-de-León, MD, MSc, is an associate professor "C", is responsible for the Microbiome Laboratory and Coordinator of the University Program for Health Research of the Faculty of Medicine at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CDMX.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pathogenic RNA viruses are potentially the most important group involved in zoonotic disease transmission, and they represent a challenge for global disease control. Their biological diversity and rapid adaptive rates have proved to be difficult to overcome and to anticipate by modern medical technology. Also, the anthropogenic change of natural ecosystems and the continuous population growth are driving increased rates of interspecies contacts and the interchange of pathogens that can develop into global pandemics. The combination of molecular, epidemiological, and ecological knowledge of RNA viruses is therefore essential towards the proper control of these emergent pathogens. This review outlines, throughout different levels of complexity, the problems posed by RNA viral diseases, covering some of the molecular mechanisms allowing them to adapt to new host species-and to novel pharmaceutical developments-up to the known ecological processes involved in zoonotic transmission.

Indexed as

AnimalsCommunicable Diseases, EmergingHost SpecificityHumansPandemicsRNA VirusesZoonoses

Identifiers

PMID28985316
PMCPMC7108571

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