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ArticleThe Lancet. Infectious diseases2021

Lowering SARS-CoV-2 viral load might affect transmission but not disease severity in secondary cases.

Mattia Trunfio, Andrea Calcagno, Stefano Bonora, Giovanni Di Perri

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Article in The Lancet. Infectious diseases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Protective and pathogenic role of humoral responses in COVID-19.Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Mattia TrunfioUniversity of Torino, Department of Medical Sciences at the Unit of Infectious Diseases, Amedeo di Savoia Hospital, Torino, Italy; Clinica Universitaria I Piano, Ospedale Amedeo di Savoia, 10149 Torino, Italy. Electronic address: mattia.trunfio@edu.unito.it.
Andrea CalcagnoUniversity of Torino, Department of Medical Sciences at the Unit of Infectious Diseases, Amedeo di Savoia Hospital, Torino, Italy.
Stefano BonoraUniversity of Torino, Department of Medical Sciences at the Unit of Infectious Diseases, Amedeo di Savoia Hospital, Torino, Italy.
Giovanni Di PerriUniversity of Torino, Department of Medical Sciences at the Unit of Infectious Diseases, Amedeo di Savoia Hospital, Torino, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19SARS-CoV-2HumansRNA, ViralSeverity of Illness IndexViral LoadRNA, Viral

Identifiers

PMID33864803
PMCPMC8046410

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