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ArticleSimulation1998

Discrete-Event Simulation Models of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria.

F Ellis McKenzie, Roger C Wong, William H Bossert

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Article in Simulation, 1998. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Meiotic recombination, cross-reactivity, and persistence in Plasmodium falciparum.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2001
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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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

F Ellis McKenzieDepartment of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Roger C Wong
William H Bossert
Harvard University · US

Funding

Intramural NIH HHS Z99 TW999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We develop discrete-event simulation models using a single "timeline" variable to represent the Plasmodium falciparum lifecycle in individual hosts and vectors within interacting host and vector populations. Where they are comparable our conclusions regarding the relative importance of vector mortality and the durations of host immunity and parasite development are congruent with those of classic differential-equation models of malaria, epidemiology. However, our results also imply that in regions with intense perennial transmission, the influence of mosquito mortality on malaria prevalence in humans may be rivaled by that of the duration of host infectivity.

Identifiers

PMID18668185
PMCPMC2490820
OpenAlexW2047916643

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