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ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2017

Zoonotic Hepatitis E Virus: An Ignored Risk for Public Health.

Yuchen Nan, Chunyan Wu, Qin Zhao, En-Min Zhou

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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 38 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
38citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
4.5field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

38 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 80 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. The prion-like characteristic of ORF3 contributes to virion release and pathogenesis of hepatitis E virus.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  8. Research Progress on Hepatitis E Virus Culture.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  14. Viral hepatitis in pregnancy.Journal of viral hepatitis · 2022
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  20. [Viral hepatitis A to E: prevalence, pathogen characteristics, and pathogenesis].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yuchen NanDepartment of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, China.
Chunyan WuDepartment of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, China.
Qin ZhaoDepartment of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, China.
En-Min ZhouDepartment of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, China.
Northwest A&F University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a quasi-enveloped, single-stranded positive-sense RNA virus. HEV belongs to the family

Indexed as

animal reservoirscross-species transmissionhepatitis E virusHEV pathogenesishost tropismzoonosis

Identifiers

PMID29255453
PMCPMC5723051
OpenAlexW2769745346

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Registered trials

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