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ReviewCurrent tropical medicine reports2017

The Role of Climate in the Epidemiology of Melioidosis.

Adam J Merritt, Timothy J J Inglis

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In one paragraph

Review in Current tropical medicine reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
34citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

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

34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. Antibodies toMicroorganisms · 2026
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  9. Spatial and Temporal Analyses of Melioidosis in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2025
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  14. Infection and drug resistance · 2025
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  16. Vaccines · 2024
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  17. Burkholderia pseudomallei and melioidosis.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2024
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  20. Melioidosis in Cynomolgus Macaques (Comparative medicine · 2022
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Adam J MerrittDepartment of Microbiology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine Western Australia, PP Building, QEII Medical Centre, Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, WA 6009 Australia.
Timothy J J InglisDepartment of Microbiology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine Western Australia, PP Building, QEII Medical Centre, Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, WA 6009 Australia.
Pathwest Laboratory Medicine · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewMelioidosis epidemiology is susceptible to climate change through direct and indirect effects on human encounter with the causative agent, RECENT

findingsHigh maximum rainfall and dense cloud cover have been shown to predict environmental presence of SUMMARY: Predicted increases in temperature, changes in global precipitation patterns and an increased incidence of extreme weather events are expected to change melioidosis epidemiology. Further studies of the physical geographic drivers of melioidosis will deepen understanding of the impact of climate on melioidosis.

Indexed as

Burkholderia pseudomalleiClimateEpidemiologyMelioidosis

Identifiers

PMID29188170
PMCPMC5684260
OpenAlexW2746846084

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