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ArticleJournal of medical virology2021

Lassa fever and COVID-19 in Africa: A double crisis on the fragile health system.

Mohammad Mehedi Hasan, Ana Carla Dos Santos Costa, Eleni Xenophontos, Parvathy Mohanan, Esther Edet Bassey, Shoaib Ahmad, Mohammad Yasir Essar

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Article in Journal of medical virology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

20 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

7 authors at 7 institutions in 7 countries.

Mohammad Mehedi HasanDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Life Science, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3871-889X
Ana Carla Dos Santos CostaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8486-7899
Eleni XenophontosDepartment of Medicine, Medical School, University of Cyprus Medical School, Nicosia, Cyprus.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8124-3677
Parvathy MohananDepartment of General Medicine, Medical University Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Esther Edet BasseyDepartment of Medical Physiology, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9221-2219
Shoaib AhmadDepartment of Medicine and General Surgery, Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad, Pakistan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7241-7724
Mohammad Yasir EssarDepartment of Medical Research Center, Kateb University, Kabul, Afghanistan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6554-7619
Green University of Bangladesh · BDKabul Medical University · AFMedical University of Sofia · BGPunjab Medical College · PKUniversidade Federal da Bahia · BRUniversity of Nicosia · CYUniversity of Uyo · NG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AfricaAnimalsCOVID-19Delivery of Health CareHumansLassa FeverLassa virusSARS-CoV-2coronavirus < virus classificationLassa virus < virus classificationpublic policy < social science

Identifiers

PMID34191292
PMCPMC8427126
OpenAlexW3177413543

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