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Trial reportAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2008

Malaria treatment with atovaquone-proguanil in malaria-immune adults: implications for malaria intervention trials and for pre-exposure prophylaxis of malaria.

Mark E Polhemus, Shon Remich, Bernhards Ogutu, John Waitumbi, Marc Lievens, W Ripley Ballou, D Gray Heppner

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In one paragraph

Trial report in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 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

7 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Mark E PolhemusWalter Reed Project, United States Army Medical Research Unit, Kisumu, Kenya. mpolhemus@wrp-ksm.org
Shon Remich
Bernhards Ogutu
John Waitumbi
Marc Lievens
W Ripley Ballou
D Gray Heppner
GlaxoSmithKline (Belgium) · BEKenya Medical Research Institute · KEUnited States Army Medical Research Directorate - Africa · KEWalter Reed Army Institute of Research · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Eighty adults in areas of Kenya where malaria is holoendemic received presumptive treatment with atovaquone-proguanil and were followed closely. The time to the first Plasmodium falciparum parasitemia was 32 days. This prolonged prophylaxis period has implications for study design when used in malaria intervention trials and cautiously suggests clinical investigation of potential preexposure prophylaxis of malaria.

Indexed as

Malaria, FalciparumParasitemiaAdolescentAdultAnimalsAntimalarialsAtovaquoneChemopreventionHumansKaplan-Meier EstimateKenyaMalaria VaccinesPlasmodium falciparumProguanilTime FactorsAntimalarialsAtovaquoneMalaria VaccinesProguanil

Identifiers

PMID18268090
PMCPMC2292568
OpenAlexW1983326303

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