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ArticleEpidemiology and infection2024

Weather conditions and legionellosis: a nationwide case-crossover study among Medicare recipients.

Timothy J Wade, Carly Herbert

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Epidemiology and infection, 2024. 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.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Microorganisms · 2026
    Review
  4. Seasonality and effects of climatic exposures on community-acquired Legionnaires' disease incidence, Italy, 2005 to 2023.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2026
    Article
  5. Article
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

2 authors.

Timothy J WadeUnited States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7843-0997
Carly HerbertOak Ridge Associated Universities, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Legionellosis is a respiratory infection caused by

Indexed as

LegionellosisMedicareWeatherAgedAged, 80 and overCross-Over StudiesFemaleHospitalizationHumansLegionellaMaleRisk FactorsUnited Statescase-crossoverhumidityLegionellaLegionellosismedical recordsprecipitationtemperatureweather

Identifiers

PMID39417401
PMCPMC11502464

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