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Record W4411974122 · doi:10.1099/jmm.0.001998

The Ebola virus – going beyond the bleeding edge

2025· review· en· W4411974122 on OpenAlexaff
Mathew Diggle

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Medical Microbiology · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicViral Infections and Outbreaks Research
Canadian institutionsProvincial Laboratory of Public HealthUniversity of AlbertaAlberta Health Services
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOutbreakEbola virusFiloviridaeVirologyEbolavirusVirusDiseaseMedicineEbola Hemorrhagic FeverBiologyViral diseaseInternal medicine

Abstract

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The Ebola virus (EBV) genus is responsible for severe viral haemorrhagic illness caused by a group of viruses belonging to the Filoviridae family. Five species have been identified as causative agents for Ebola virus disease (EVD). The EBV (Zaire) strain is the most predominant organism involved in recorded EVD outbreaks and has been reported as the most virulent. EVD was first identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1976 and has occurred in sporadic outbreaks over the last few decades with the most recent episode in Uganda over the period September 2022-January 2023. EVD is zoonotic in nature with bats as reservoir host and humans become infected via a spillover event from contact with infected animals. EVD is transmitted through contact with infected bodily fluids. It is considered fatal with a high mortality and high infectivity rate. Treatment is generally supportive with the availability of intravenous fluids and medicines. Research into vaccine development is ongoing. EVD is a particular public health concern given the potential for global spread during an outbreak.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.014

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.040
GPT teacher head0.410
Teacher spread0.370 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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