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ReviewBMJ global health2018

Zika, chikungunya and dengue: the causes and threats of new and re-emerging arboviral diseases.

Enny S Paixão, Maria Gloria Teixeira, Laura C Rodrigues

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Review in BMJ global health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 238 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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238citing papers in PubMed, 10 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

238 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 463 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Enny S PaixãoEpidemiology and Population Health, London Schoolof Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, Uk.
Maria Gloria TeixeiraInstituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Laura C RodriguesEpidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and tropical Medicine, London, uk.
Instituto de Saúde · BRLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine · GBUniversidade Federal da Bahia · BR

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_PC_15088Wellcome Trust 205377
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The recent emergence and re-emergence of viral infections transmitted by vectors-Zika, chikungunya, dengue, Japanese encephalitis, West Nile, yellow fever and others-is a cause for international concern. Using as examples Zika, chikungunya and dengue, we summarise current knowledge on characteristics of the viruses and their transmission, clinical features, laboratory diagnosis, burden, history, possible causes of the spread and the expectation for future epidemics. Arboviruses are transmitted by mosquitoes, are of difficult diagnosis, can have surprising clinical complications and cause severe burden. The current situation is complex, because there is no vaccine for Zika and chikungunya and no specific treatment for the three arboviruses. Vector control is the only comprehensive solution available now and this remains a challenge because up to now this has not been very effective. Until we develop new technologies of control mosquito populations, the globalised and urbanised world we live in will remain vulnerable to the threat of successive arbovirus epidemics.

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arbovirusescontrol strategiesdenguepublic healthyellow fever

Identifiers

PMID29435366
PMCPMC5759716
OpenAlexW2771726993

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