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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2002

Are trends in HIV, gonorrhoea, and syphilis worsening in western Europe?

Angus Nicoll, Françoise F Hamers

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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40citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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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

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

40 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Interactive computer-based interventions for sexual health promotion.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2010
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  4. Syphilis.Sexually transmitted infections · 2006
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  15. Pseudolymphomatous luetic lymphadenitis associated with B cell clonality.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2012
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  18. Neurosyphilis in the age of AIDS: clinical and laboratory features.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2009
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  19. The potential role of biomarkers in HIV preventive vaccine trials.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2009
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Angus NicollPublic Health Laboratory Service Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, London NW9 5EQ. anicoll@phls.org.uk
Françoise F Hamers

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

EuropeFemaleGonorrheaHIV InfectionsHomosexuality, MaleHumansInfectious Disease Transmission, VerticalMalePrevalenceSyphilis

Identifiers

PMID12039830
PMCPMC1123279

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