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ArticlePLoS neglected tropical diseases2008

Marring leishmaniasis: the stigmatization and the impact of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Masoom Kassi, Mahwash Kassi, Abaseen Khan Afghan, Rabeea Rehman, Pashtoon Murtaza Kasi

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Article in PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 84 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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84citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
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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

84 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  7. Efficacy, Safety and Cost-Effectiveness of Thermotherapy in the Treatment ofThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2017
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  14. Lupoid Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: A Case Report.Juntendo medical journal · 2026
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  19. Cutaneous leishmaniasis in Afghanistan.Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2025
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24 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

5 authors.

Masoom KassiDepartment of Pathology, Bolan Medical College, Quetta, Pakistan. masoomkassi@yahoo.com
Mahwash Kassi
Abaseen Khan Afghan
Rabeea Rehman
Pashtoon Murtaza Kasi

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

StereotypingAfghanistanAnimalsFemaleHumansInsect VectorsLeishmaniaLeishmaniasis, CutaneousMalePakistanSocial Problems

Identifiers

PMID18958168
PMCPMC2569210

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