Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30357983›Full record

ArticleReviews in medical virology2018

Reply to Simon et al. on "The neurological complications of chikungunya virus: A systematic review".

Ravi Mehta, Patrick Gerardin, Carlos Alexandre Antunes de Brito, Cristiane Nascimento Soares, Maria Lucia Brito Ferreira, Tom Solomon

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In one paragraph

Article in Reviews in medical virology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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.

  1. A review of bloodstream infections-pathogens, pathogenesis, diagnostic strategies, treatment methods-challenges and future aspects.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ravi MehtaNational Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8211-1721
Patrick GerardinINSERM CIC1410, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Réunion, Saint Pierre, France.
Carlos Alexandre Antunes de BritoFederal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
Cristiane Nascimento SoaresHospital Federal dos Servidores do Estado, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Maria Lucia Brito FerreiraHospital da Restauração, Recife, Brazil.
Tom SolomonNational Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7266-6547

Funding

Department of Health EME/12/205/28Department of Health IS-HPU-1112-10117Department of Health RP-PG-0108-10048Medical Research Council G116/194Medical Research Council MC_PC_15096
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Chikungunya FeverChikungunya virusNervous System DiseasesHumans

Identifiers

PMID30357983

What OpenQuestion holds

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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.