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ArticlemSphere2025

To be or not to be: how does the brain respond to different infectious agents?

Ushma Ruparel, Christopher J Tonkin

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Article in mSphere, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Extracellular vesicles and circulating nucleic acids · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ushma RuparelThe Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-2913-7409
Christopher J TonkinThe Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-7036-6222

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BrainToxoplasmaToxoplasmosisZika Virus InfectionAnimalsHumansWest Nile FeverWest Nile virusZika VirusbrainflavivirusimmunityinfectionneuronToxoplasma

Identifiers

PMID40762468
PMCPMC12379583

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