ReviewNature reviews. Microbiology2021
Transmissibility and transmission of respiratory viruses.
Review in Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05017441 (TOcilizumab and Covid-19), which is not on this map. Cited by 431 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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TOcilizumab and Covid-19 : Risk of Severe INfection
Who cites it
431 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 886 citations in OpenAlex.
- Respiratory Syncytial Virus Transmission in Closed Community Settings That Include Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Influenza and other respiratory viruses · 2026Pooled it
- Atypical causes of respiratory virus infections in Sub-Saharan Africa from 2013- 2023: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Pooled it
- Causes of COVID-19 Outbreaks During Sports and Exercise: A Systematic Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Pooled it
- Adherence to mask-wearing and its impact on the incidence and deaths of viral respiratory infectious diseases: a systematic review, meta-analysis and modelling study.BMJ global health · 2025Pooled it
- Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Upper respiratory tract CD8+ tissue-resident memory T cells protect against viral transmission.The Journal of experimental medicine · 2026Article
- Niche-specific immune and microbial signatures across the healthy upper respiratory tract mucosa.iScience · 2026Article
- Hitting Coronaviruses Where It Hurts: Antiviral Strategies Targeting Viral Proteins.ChemMedChem · 2026Review
- The role of the respiratory microbiome in acute and chronic respiratory diseases.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- Influenza mitigation recommendations, symptoms, and viral RNA shedding durations-2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons.American journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
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- A Novel Air-Liquid Interface Exposure System for Continuous Gas Exposure of Airway Epithelial Cells: Exposure of NOJournal of applied toxicology : JAT · 2026Article
- Leveraging perturbations to infer the population dynamics of human rhinovirus and interaction of influenza A virus.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- Mucins and Respiratory Virus Infection.Annual review of virology · 2026Review
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- Influenza.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2026Review
- Synergistic control of viral persistence via wettability and ion release on antiviral coatings.Materials today. Bio · 2026Article
- Mechanics of pandemics.EClinicalMedicine · 2026Review
- Accounting for the long-distance transmission route: An epidemiological model of airborne disease transmission in hospitals.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- Respiratory Viral Burden and Healthcare Utilization Among Pediatric Patients With Acute Respiratory Viral Infections in a Tertiary Care Center.Health science reports · 2026Article
371 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Human respiratory virus infections lead to a spectrum of respiratory symptoms and disease severity, contributing to substantial morbidity, mortality and economic losses worldwide, as seen in the COVID-19 pandemic. Belonging to diverse families, respiratory viruses differ in how easy they spread (transmissibility) and the mechanism (modes) of transmission. Transmissibility as estimated by the basic reproduction number (R
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