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ArticleThe Lancet. Microbe2021

Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Zimbabwe shows dominance of variants of concern.

Tapfumanei Mashe, Faustinos Tatenda Takawira, Hlanai Gumbo, Agnes Juru, Charles Nyagupe, Kenneth K Maeka, Sekesai Mtapuri-Zinyowera, Muchaneta Gudza-Mugabe, Leonardo de Oliveira Martins, Justin O'Grady and 3 more

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Article in The Lancet. Microbe, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Tapfumanei MasheNational Microbiology Reference Laboratory, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Faustinos Tatenda TakawiraNational Microbiology Reference Laboratory, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Hlanai GumboNational Microbiology Reference Laboratory, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Agnes JuruNational Microbiology Reference Laboratory, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Charles NyagupeNational Microbiology Reference Laboratory, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Kenneth K MaekaNational Microbiology Reference Laboratory, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Sekesai Mtapuri-ZinyoweraNational Microbiology Reference Laboratory, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Muchaneta Gudza-MugabeWorld Health Organization, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Leonardo de Oliveira MartinsQuadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich, UK.
Justin O'GradyQuadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich, UK.
Robert A KingsleyQuadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich, UK.
Andrew J PageQuadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich, UK.
Raiva SimbiMinistry of Health and Child Care, Harare, Zimbabwe.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/R012504/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/F/000PR10352World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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COVID-19SARS-CoV-2HumansZimbabwe

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PMID33723535
PMCPMC7946415

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