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ArticleCommunications medicine2025

Increased testing is needed for Mpox in DR Congo to urgently curb disease spread.

Prince Imani-Musimwa, Placide Mbala-Kingebeni, Stéphane Hans-Bateyi-Mustafa, Alfred Ombeni-Musimwa, Mija Ververs

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Article in Communications medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Prince Imani-MusimwaUniversity of Goma, Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo. princeimani12@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3507-8388
Placide Mbala-KingebeniInstitut National de Recherche Biomedicale (INRB), Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1556-3570
Stéphane Hans-Bateyi-MustafaUniversité Libre des Pays des Grands Lacs, Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Alfred Ombeni-MusimwaCentre d'Expertise en Recherche et Action Humanitaire, Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0007-7905-4165
Mija VerversJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7182-2998

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID40634699
PMCPMC12241371

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