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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2022

An overview of viral mutagenesis and the impact on pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 variants.

Muhammad Zafar Irshad Khan, Adila Nazli, Hawaa Al-Furas, Muhammad Imran Asad, Iqra Ajmal, Dildar Khan, Jaffer Shah, Muhammad Asad Farooq, Wenzheng Jiang

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 29 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

9 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Muhammad Zafar Irshad KhanCollege of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Adila NazliFaculty of Biological Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Hawaa Al-FurasInternational Cooperative Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Modernization and Innovative Drug Development, Ministry of Education (MOE) of China, Guangzhou City Key Laboratory of Precision Chemical Drug Development, School of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
Muhammad Imran AsadFaculty of Biological Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Iqra AjmalShanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
Dildar KhanFaculty of Biological Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Jaffer ShahDepartment of Health, New York, NY, United States.
Muhammad Asad FarooqShanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
Wenzheng JiangShanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
East China Normal University · CNQuaid-i-Azam University · PKJinan University · CNZhejiang University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Viruses are submicroscopic, obligate intracellular parasites that carry either DNA or RNA as their genome, protected by a capsid. Viruses are genetic entities that propagate by using the metabolic and biosynthetic machinery of their hosts and many of them cause sickness in the host. The ability of viruses to adapt to different hosts and settings mainly relies on their ability to create

Indexed as

COVID-19VirusesGenome, ViralHumansMutagenesisSARS-CoV-2COVID-19mutation in virusesphylogenomicsSAR-CoV-2virulence

Identifiers

PMID36518757
PMCPMC9742215
OpenAlexW4310028550

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