A pilot study of

Ilona Houston, Christy Barlund, Lynora Saxinger, Heidi Wood, Stan Houston

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Article in The Canadian veterinary journal = La revue veterinaire canadienne, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in

1citing 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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

The Canadian veterinary journal = La revue veterinaire canadienne · 2026
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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.

Ilona HoustonLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK (I. Houston); Grande Prairie Regional College, Fairview, Alberta (Barlund); Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (Saxinger, S. Houston); National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba (Wood).

Christy BarlundLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK (I. Houston); Grande Prairie Regional College, Fairview, Alberta (Barlund); Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (Saxinger, S. Houston); National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba (Wood).

Lynora SaxingerLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK (I. Houston); Grande Prairie Regional College, Fairview, Alberta (Barlund); Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (Saxinger, S. Houston); National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba (Wood).

Heidi WoodLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK (I. Houston); Grande Prairie Regional College, Fairview, Alberta (Barlund); Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (Saxinger, S. Houston); National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba (Wood).

Stan HoustonLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK (I. Houston); Grande Prairie Regional College, Fairview, Alberta (Barlund); Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (Saxinger, S. Houston); National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba (Wood).

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A pilot seroprevalence study was performed among asymptomatic occupationally exposed individuals in June, 2016 in the Peace River region of Alberta and British Columbia. Five of 40 subjects - 3 of 24 small ruminant producers, 1 of 14 abattoir workers, and 1 of 2 veterinarians had evidence of

Indexed as

Occupational ExposureAbattoirsAlbertaAnimalsBritish ColumbiaCoxiella burnetiiFarmersGoatsHumansOccupational DiseasesPilot ProjectsQ FeverSeroepidemiologic StudiesSheepVeterinarians

Identifiers

PMID30026625

PMCPMC6005069

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