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ArticleBioscience2025

Where is the elusive primary

Mekala Sundaram, Nicole L Gottdenker, Patrick R Stephens

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Article in Bioscience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing 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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
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  4. Spatial risks of Orthoebolavirus spillover vary based on outbreak type.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2025
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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.

Mekala Sundaramassistant professor at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, at the University of Georgia, Aiken SC USA and in the Department of Infectious Diseases and the Center for Precision One Health, University of Georgia, Athens GA USA.
Nicole L Gottdenkerfull professor in the Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens GA USA.
Patrick R Stephensassistant professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater OK USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1995-5715

Funding

Spillover of Ebola and other filoviruses at ecological boundariesR01AI156866 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI STEPHENS, PATRICK · 2020 to 2024
$2.2M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI156866
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An enduring mystery in

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batdisease reservoirEbolavirusOne Healthzoonotic disease

Identifiers

PMID42751242
PMCPMC13580389

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.