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ReviewInfectious Disease Modelling2017

Reproduction numbers of infectious disease models.

Pauline van den Driessche

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Review in Infectious Disease Modelling, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 221 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
221citing papers in PubMed
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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

221 citing papers in PubMed.

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  14. Epidemicity conditions in spatial models of infectious diseases.Bollettino della Unione matematica italiana (2008) · 2026
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161 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

1 author.

Pauline van den DriesscheDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This primer article focuses on the basic reproduction number,

Indexed as

AnthraxBasic reproduction numberCholeraDisease controlWest Nile virusZika virus

Identifiers

PMID29928743
PMCPMC6002118

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Registered trials

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