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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Human ectoparasite transmission of the plague during the Second Pandemic is only weakly supported by proposed mathematical models.

Sang Woo Park, Jonathan Dushoff, David J D Earn, Hendrik Poinar, Benjamin M Bolker

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Acceleration of plague outbreaks in the second pandemic.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  2. Reply to Park et al.: Human ectoparasite transmission of plague during the Second Pandemic is still plausible.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Sang Woo ParkDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1; parksw3@mcmaster.ca.ORCID 0000-0003-2202-3361
Jonathan DushoffDepartment of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1.
David J D EarnDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1.
Hendrik PoinarDepartment of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1.
Benjamin M BolkerDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1.ORCID 0000-0002-2127-0443

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PandemicsDisease OutbreaksHumansModels, TheoreticalPlagueYersinia pestis

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PMID30076235
PMCPMC6112721

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