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ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2022

Knowing the unknown: The underestimation of monkeypox cases. Insights and implications from an integrative review of the literature.

Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Woldegebriel Assefa Woldegerima, Sarafa Adewale Iyaniwura, Qing Han, Xiaoying Wang, Aminath Shausan, Kingsley Badu, Patrick Okwen, Cheryl Prescod, Michelle Westin and 5 more

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Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 25 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

15 authors at 9 institutions in 8 countries.

Nicola Luigi BragazziLaboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (LIAM), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Woldegebriel Assefa WoldegerimaLaboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (LIAM), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Sarafa Adewale IyaniwuraTheoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States.
Qing HanLaboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (LIAM), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Xiaoying WangDepartment of Mathematics, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada.
Aminath ShausanSchool of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, QLD, Australia.
Kingsley BaduVector-borne Infectious Disease Group, Theoretical and Applied Biology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
Patrick OkwenEffective Basic Services (eBASE), Bamenda, Cameroon.
Cheryl PrescodBlack Creek Community Health Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Michelle WestinBlack Creek Community Health Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Andrew OmameDepartment of Mathematics, Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria.
Manlio ConvertiASL Napoli 2 Nord, Naples, Italy.
Bruce MelladoSchool of Physics and Institute for Collider Particle Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Jianhong WuLaboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (LIAM), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Jude Dzevela KongLaboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (LIAM), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
York University · CARegent Park Community Health Centre · CAFederal University of Technology Owerri · NGKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology · GHLos Alamos National Laboratory · USTrent University · CAUniversity of Bamenda · CMUniversity of Queensland · AUUniversity of the Witwatersrand · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Monkeypox is an emerging zoonotic disease caused by the monkeypox virus, which is an infectious agent belonging to the

Indexed as

emerging and re-emerging infectious diseasemonkeypoxunder-ascertainmentunder-detectionunder-diagnosisunderestimationunderreportingzoonotic disease

Identifiers

PMID36246252
PMCPMC9563713
OpenAlexW4297008824

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Registered trials

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