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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2007

Borrelia burgdorferi infection and cutaneous Lyme disease, Mexico.

Guadalupe Gordillo-Pérez, Javier Torres, Fortino Solórzano-Santos, Sylvie de Martino, Dan Lipsker, Edmundo Velázquez, Guillermo Ramon, Muñoz Onofre, Benoit Jaulhac

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 53 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Guadalupe Gordillo-PérezInstituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico City, Mexico. lugope2@hotmail.com
Javier Torres
Fortino Solórzano-Santos
Sylvie de Martino
Dan Lipsker
Edmundo Velázquez
Guillermo Ramon
Muñoz Onofre
Benoit Jaulhac
Mexican Social Security Institute · MXHôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Four patients who had received tick bites while visiting forests in Mexico had skin lesions that met the case definition of erythema migrans, or borrelial lymphocytoma. Clinical diagnosis was supported with histologic, serologic, and molecular tests. This study suggests the Borrelia burgdorferi infection is in Mexico.

Indexed as

Borrelia burgdorferi GroupEndemic DiseasesAdultBlotting, WesternChildErythema Chronicum MigransHumansLyme DiseaseMexicoMiddle AgedSkin Diseases, Bacterial

Identifiers

PMID18258006
PMCPMC2851501
OpenAlexW1968616279

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Registered trials

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