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ArticleGenome biology2020

Response to Brinkmann et al. "Re-assembly of 19th century smallpox vaccine genomes reveals the contemporaneous use of horsepox and horsepox-related viruses in the United States".

Ana T Duggan, Edward C Holmes, Hendrik N Poinar

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Article in Genome biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ana T DugganMcMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, L8S 4L9, Canada. duggana@mcmaster.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-2582-2954
Edward C HolmesMarie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, School of Life and Environmental Sciences and School of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
Hendrik N PoinarMcMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, L8S 4L9, Canada.
McMaster University · CAThe University of Sydney · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We thank Brinkmann and colleagues for their correspondence and their further investigation into these American Civil War Era vaccination strains. Here, we summarize the difficulties and caveats of work with ancient DNA.

Indexed as

OrthopoxvirusSmallpoxSmallpox VaccineAmerican Civil WarGenomicsHumansUnited StatesSmallpox Vaccine

Identifiers

PMID33272282
PMCPMC7716422
OpenAlexW3109813890

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Registered trials

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