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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2023

Early Warning Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variants, United Kingdom, November 2021-September 2022.

Sarah Foulkes, Edward J M Monk, Dominic Sparkes, Nipunadi Hettiarachchi, Iain D Milligan, Katie Munro, Andrew Taylor-Kerr, Naomi Platt, Anna Howells, Jerry Ye Aung Kyaw and 22 more

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 testing strategies.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025
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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

32 authors at 10 institutions in 1 country.

Sarah Foulkes
Edward J M Monk
Dominic Sparkes
Nipunadi Hettiarachchi
Iain D Milligan
Katie Munro
Andrew Taylor-Kerr
Naomi Platt
Anna Howells
Jerry Ye Aung Kyaw
Enemona Adaji
Eileen Gallagher
Jameel Khawam
Edgar Wellington
Lesley Price
David Crossman
Chris Norman
Elen de Lacy
Lisa Cromey
Diane Corrigan
Angie Lackenby
Paola Barbero
Busayo Elegunde
Maria Zambon
Meera A Chand
Colin S Brown
Jasmin Islam
Ana Atti
Susan Hopkins
Victoria J Hall
Michelle J Cole
SIREN Study Group
University College London · GBNational Institute for Health Research · GBPublic Health Scotland · GBRoyal Free London NHS Foundation Trust · GBGlasgow Caledonian University · GBHealth and Care Research Wales · GBPublic Health Agency · GBUK Health Security AgencyThe Royal Free Hospital · GBUniversity of St Andrews · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/W02067X/1Medical Research Council NIHR200927
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since June 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 Immunity and Reinfection Evaluation (SIREN) study has conducted routine PCR testing in UK healthcare workers and sequenced PCR-positive samples. SIREN detected increases in infections and reinfections and delected Omicron subvariant waves emergence contemporaneous with national surveillance. SIREN's sentinel surveillance methods can be used for variant surveillance.

Indexed as

COVID-19AnimalsCaudataHealth PersonnelHumansReinfectionSARS-CoV-2United KingdomBA.1BA.2BA.4BA.5coronaviruscoronavirus diseaseCOVID-19Omicron variantrespiratory infectionsSARSSARS-CoV-2severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2SIREN studyUnited Kingdomviruseszoonoses

Identifiers

PMID36454718
PMCPMC9796219
OpenAlexW4310570034

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