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ReviewThe Medical clinics of North America2024

Update on Mpox: What the Primary Care Clinician Should Know.

Jacob McLean, Shauna Gunaratne, Jason Zucker

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Review in The Medical clinics of North America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 52% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. In Critical Condition: The Urgent Need to Support Mpox Therapeutic and Diagnostic Pipelines.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2026
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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jacob McLeanDivision of Infectious Diseases, Columbia University Medical Center, 630 W 168th Street, Suite 876, New York, NY 10032, USA. Electronic address: jm5146@cumc.columbia.edu.
Shauna GunaratneDivision of Infectious Diseases, Columbia University Medical Center, 630 W 168th Street, Suite 876, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Jason ZuckerDivision of Infectious Diseases, Columbia University Medical Center, 630 W 168th Street, Suite 876, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Columbia University Irving Medical Center · US

Funding

Columbia Partnership for Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials UnitUM1AI069470 · NIAID · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI MAGDALENA ELZBIETA SOBIESZCZYK · 2012 to 2026
$44.8M
Columbia Integrated Training Program in Infectious Diseases ResearchT32AI100852 · NIAID · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI MAGDALENA ELZBIETA SOBIESZCZYK, Anne-Catrin Uhlemann · 2013 to 2026
$2.2M
Harnessing Bioinformatics for HIV Prevention: Understanding Persistence in Comprehensive HIV Prevention ServicesK23AI150378 · NIAID · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI ZUCKER, JASON · 2020 to 2024
$960k
NIAID NIH HHS K23 AI150378NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI100852NIAID NIH HHS UM1 AI069470
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mpox is a viral infection, which primarily caused sporadic outbreaks in West and Central Africa until causing a global epidemic in 2022. The disease has disproportionately affected people with human immunodeficiency virus and men who have sex with men. Transmission is through close physical contact, including sexual contact. Infection presents with a characteristic rash, with frequent anogenital involvement-polymerase chain reaction of skin lesions is diagnostic. Vaccination is available for primary prevention and postexposure prophylaxis. Treatment consists of supportive care, with antiviral medications available via clinical trials and/or for patients with severe disease.

Indexed as

Mpox, MonkeypoxSexual and Gender MinoritiesAntiviral AgentsHomosexuality, MaleHumansMalePrimary Health CareAntiviral AgentsEmerging infectious diseaseHIVMpoxSexually transmitted infection

Identifiers

PMID38331485
PMCPMC10853636
OpenAlexW4387812998

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Registered trials

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