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ArticleNpj viruses2024

Mpox in Central Africa: complex epidemiology requires a constellation approach.

Megan Halbrook, Jean Claude Makangara-Cigolo, Sydney Merritt, Nicole A Hoff, Laurens Liesenborghs, Lisa E Hensley, Koen Vercauteren, Placide Mbala-Kingebeni, Anne W Rimoin, Jason Kindrachuk

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Article in Npj viruses, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Review
  3. The emergence of Mpox in Ethiopia: implications for public health action.Tropical diseases, travel medicine and vaccines · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Megan HalbrookUniversity of California Los Angeles, Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Jean Claude Makangara-CigoloInstitut National de Recherche Biomedical (INRB), Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Sydney MerrittUniversity of California Los Angeles, Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Nicole A HoffUniversity of California Los Angeles, Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Laurens LiesenborghsDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
Lisa E HensleyZoonotic and Emerging Disease Research Unit, National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Manhattan, KS, USA.
Koen VercauterenDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
Placide Mbala-KingebeniInstitut National de Recherche Biomedical (INRB), Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Anne W RimoinUniversity of California Los Angeles, Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA. arimoin@ucla.edu.
Jason KindrachukMax Rady College of Medicine, Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Jason.Kindrachuk@umanitoba.ca.

Funding

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) 58-3022-2-020
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID40295713
PMCPMC11721670

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