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ArticleFoodborne pathogens and disease2023

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Reported Incidence of Select Bacterial Enteric Diseases in Canada, 2020.

Brendan Dougherty, Russell O Forrest, Courtney R Smith, Vanessa Morton, Lauren M Sherk, Brent Avery, Ashley Kearney, Sara Christianson, Celine Nadon, M Kate Thomas

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Article in Foodborne pathogens and disease, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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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

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Increased Severity of Multidrug-Resistant Shigella sonnei Infections in People Experiencing Homelessness.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 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

10 authors.

Brendan DoughertyPublic Health Agency of Canada, Centre for Food-Borne, Environmental & Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Food-Borne Disease and Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Division, Guelph, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-0400-5795
Russell O ForrestPublic Health Agency of Canada, Centre for Food-Borne, Environmental & Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Outbreak Management Division, Ottawa, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-1875-388X
Courtney R SmithPublic Health Agency of Canada, Centre for Food-Borne, Environmental & Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Outbreak Management Division, Ottawa, Canada.
Vanessa MortonPublic Health Agency of Canada, Centre for Food-Borne, Environmental & Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Outbreak Management Division, Ottawa, Canada.
Lauren M SherkPublic Health Agency of Canada, Centre for Food-Borne, Environmental & Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Food-Borne Disease and Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Division, Guelph, Canada.
Brent AveryPublic Health Agency of Canada, Centre for Food-Borne, Environmental & Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Food-Borne Disease and Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Division, Guelph, Canada.
Ashley KearneyPublic Health Agency of Canada, National Microbiology Laboratory, Division of Enteric Diseases, Winnipeg, Canada.
Sara ChristiansonPublic Health Agency of Canada, National Microbiology Laboratory, Division of Enteric Diseases, Winnipeg, Canada.
Celine NadonPublic Health Agency of Canada, National Microbiology Laboratory, Division of Enteric Diseases, Winnipeg, Canada.
M Kate ThomasPublic Health Agency of Canada, Centre for Food-Borne, Environmental & Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Food-Borne Disease and Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Division, Guelph, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of this study was to describe the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on reported cases and clusters of select enteric diseases in Canada, for the period of March 2020 to December 2020. Weekly counts of laboratory confirmed cases of

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Bacterial InfectionsCOVID-19Escherichia coli InfectionsShiga-Toxigenic Escherichia coliShigellaCanadaCommunicable Disease ControlHumansIncidencePandemicsSalmonellaCOVID-19foodborne illnesstrends

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PMID36893331
PMCPMC9997028

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