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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2018

Herd Immunity to Ebolaviruses Is Not a Realistic Target for Current Vaccination Strategies.

Stuart G Masterson, Leslie Lobel, Miles W Carroll, Mark N Wass, Martin Michaelis

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 26% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 16 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

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Stuart G MastersonIndustrial Biotechnology Centre and School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom.
Leslie LobelDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Miles W CarrollResearch & Development Institute, National Infection Service, Public Health England, Porton Down, Salisbury, United Kingdom.
Mark N WassIndustrial Biotechnology Centre and School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom.
Martin MichaelisIndustrial Biotechnology Centre and School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom.
University of Kent · GBBen-Gurion University of the Negev · ILPublic Health England · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The recent West African Ebola virus pandemic, which affected >28,000 individuals increased interest in anti-Ebolavirus vaccination programs. Here, we systematically analyzed the requirements for a prophylactic vaccination program based on the basic reproductive number (

Indexed as

Immunity, HerdImmunization ProgramsEbola VaccinesEbolavirusHealth PersonnelHemorrhagic Fever, EbolaHumansPandemicsVaccinationEbola Vaccinesbasic reproduction numberebola virusEbolavirusherd immunityvaccines

Identifiers

PMID29867992
PMCPMC5954026
OpenAlexW2951928270

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