Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29573259›Full record

ReviewMicrobiology spectrum2018

Transmission, Human Population, and Pathogenicity: the Ebola Case in Point.

Rafael Delgado, Fernando Simón

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Review in Microbiology spectrum, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 32% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 7 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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Rafael DelgadoDepartment of Microbiology and Instituto de Investigación i+12, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain.
Fernando SimónCenter for Health Alerts and Emergencies Coordination, Ministry of Health and CIBERESP, Madrid, Spain.
Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública · ESHospital Universitario 12 De Octubre · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been the largest ever of a known disease in a new context that produced an unprecedented impact and is changing the international approach to responding to public health emergencies. The unprecedented scale of the outbreak, the use of advanced technology for detecting and characterizing the infectious agent, along with the opportunity to treat patients in modern facilities have greatly increased our knowledge of the disease and its transmission. Also, for the first time, an important international effort has been deployed to control the spread of the epidemic by providing care to patients and by adopting basic measures of public health control. Apart from supportive treatment and intensive therapy with fluids and electrolytes, no new compounds have been proved to be clinically effective to treat Ebola virus disease; however, a specific vaccine has shown significant protection in clinical trials in Guinea, opening an expectation for controlling future outbreaks.

Indexed as

Public HealthAfrica, WesternDelivery of Health CareDisease OutbreaksDisease Transmission, InfectiousEbolavirusEmergenciesEpidemicsHemorrhagic Fever, EbolaHistory, 21st CenturyHumansVirulenceEbola virusEbola virus diseasefilovirushemorrhagic feverR0reproductive numbertransmissionvaccines

Identifiers

PMID29573259
PMCPMC11633569
OpenAlexW2792826032

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.