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ArticleJournal of medical microbiology2021

Sensitivity of the acute flaccid paralysis surveillance system for poliovirus in South Africa, 2016-2019.

Wayne Howard, Shelina Moonsamy, Lerato Seakamela, Sabelle Jallow, Faith Modiko, Heleen du Plessis, Rosina Sibiya, Mercy Kamupira, Elizabeth Maseti, Melinda Suchard

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Article in Journal of medical microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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

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

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Wayne HowardCentre for Vaccines and Immunology, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a division of the National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Shelina MoonsamyCentre for Vaccines and Immunology, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a division of the National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Lerato SeakamelaCentre for Vaccines and Immunology, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a division of the National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Sabelle JallowCentre for Vaccines and Immunology, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a division of the National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Faith ModikoCentre for Vaccines and Immunology, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a division of the National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Heleen du PlessisCentre for Vaccines and Immunology, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a division of the National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Rosina SibiyaCentre for Vaccines and Immunology, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a division of the National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Mercy KamupiraWorld Health Organisation, South Africa.
Elizabeth MasetiNational Department of Health, South Africa.
Melinda SuchardCentre for Vaccines and Immunology, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a division of the National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa.
National Health Laboratory Service · ZA

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AdolescentCentral Nervous System Viral DiseasesChildChild, PreschoolDisease EradicationEpidemiological MonitoringFecesHumansMyelitisNeuromuscular DiseasesPoliomyelitisPoliovirusPoliovirus VaccinesSewageSouth AfricaPoliovirus VaccinesSewageAFPeradicationinfectiousparalysispoliomyelitisSouth Africasurveillancevaccine-derivedviral

Identifiers

PMID34672918
PMCPMC8604170
OpenAlexW3206713290

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Registered trials

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