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ArticleJournal of environmental and public health2017

Living with Bats: The Case of Ve Golokuati Township in the Volta Region of Ghana.

Jesse S Ayivor, Fidelia Ohemeng, Elaine Tweneboah Lawson, Linda Waldman, Melissa Leach, Yaa Ntiamoa-Baidu

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Article in Journal of environmental and public health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Jesse S AyivorInstitute for Environment and Sanitation Studies (IESS), College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, P.O. Box LG 209, Legon, Accra, Ghana.ORCID 0000-0002-2756-8048
Fidelia OhemengDepartment of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, College of Humanities, University of Ghana, P.O. Box LG 72, Legon, Accra, Ghana.
Elaine Tweneboah LawsonInstitute for Environment and Sanitation Studies (IESS), College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, P.O. Box LG 209, Legon, Accra, Ghana.
Linda WaldmanInstitute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE, UK.
Melissa LeachInstitute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1293-6848
Yaa Ntiamoa-BaiduDepartment of Animal Biology and Conservation Science, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana.ORCID 0000-0002-3915-3341
University of Ghana · GHUniversity of Sussex · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transmission of zoonotic pathogens from bats to humans through direct and indirect contact with bats raises public apprehension about living close to bats. In the township of Ve Golokuati in Ghana, several "camps" of

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AdultAgedAnimalsChiropteraFemaleFeverGhanaHuman ActivitiesHumansMaleMiddle AgedRisk AssessmentSurveys and QuestionnairesYoung AdultZoonoses

Identifiers

PMID29081813
PMCPMC5610796
OpenAlexW2752987924

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