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ArticleJournal of oral microbiology2021

Human cytomegalovirus is present in the odontogenic epithelium of ameloblastoma.

Mohammed Amjed Alsaegh, Sudhir Rama Varma, Alaa Muayad Altaie, Shengrong Zhu

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Article in Journal of oral microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 54% 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, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Prevalence of Viruses in Odontogenic Cysts and Tumours:Sultan Qaboos University medical journal · 2025
    Pooled it
  2. Absence of DNA viruses in ameloblastomas.European journal of oral sciences · 2026
    Article
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

4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Mohammed Amjed AlsaeghDepartment of Oral and Craniofacial Health Sciences, College of Dental Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE.
Sudhir Rama VarmaDepartment of Clinical Sciences, College of Dentistry, Ajman University, Ajman, UAE.
Alaa Muayad AltaieSharjah Medical Research Institute, Medical College, Sharjah University, Sharjah, UAE.
Shengrong ZhuDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China.
Ajman University · AEHuazhong University of Science and Technology · CNTongji Hospital · CNUniversity of Sharjah · AE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

ameloblastomacytomegalovirusdentigerous cystHCMVkeratocystodontogenicodontogenic tumor

Identifiers

PMID33537117
PMCPMC7832985
OpenAlexW3124112381

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Registered trials

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