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ArticleThe Lancet. Infectious diseases2020

Evaluating case definitions for Ebola virus disease.

Michael Ramharter, Stephan Günther

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Article in The Lancet. Infectious diseases, 2020. 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

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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. The Ebola virus - going beyond the bleeding edge.Journal of medical microbiology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Michael RamharterDepartment of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, 20359 Hamburg, Germany; First Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Stephan GüntherDepartment of Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, 20359 Hamburg, Germany; German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Hamburg, Germany. Electronic address: guenther@bni.uni-hamburg.de.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

EbolavirusHemorrhagic Fever, EbolaDisease OutbreaksHumans

Identifiers

PMID32593319
PMCPMC7316455

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