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Trial reportAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2010

Tolerance of benznidazole in treatment of Chagas' disease in adults.

María-Jesús Pinazo, José Muñoz, Elizabeth Posada, Paulo López-Chejade, Montserrat Gállego, Edgar Ayala, Elena del Cacho, Dolors Soy, Joaquim Gascon

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Trial report in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 84 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
84citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.5field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

84 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 191 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. An Overview ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  13. Effects of Free and Nanoencapsulated Benznidazole in AcutePharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  14. Chagas disease in immunocompromised patients.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2024
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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

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

María-Jesús PinazoTropical Diseases Section, Barcelona Centre for International Health Research, Hospital Clinic, Villarroel 170, Barcelona, Spain. mpinazo@clinic.ub.es
José Muñoz
Elizabeth Posada
Paulo López-Chejade
Montserrat Gállego
Edgar Ayala
Elena del Cacho
Dolors Soy
Joaquim Gascon
Hospital Clínic de Barcelona · ESUniversitat de Barcelona · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chagas' disease is an emerging public health problem in areas where the disease is not endemic. Treatment with benznidazole has shown efficacy in the acute stage of the disease, but its efficacy in the chronic stage remains controversial, and unwanted side effects are more frequent and severe in adults than in children. This study describes the profile of side effects of benznidazole in a cohort of Trypanosoma cruzi-infected patients in a European country.

Indexed as

AdolescentAdultChagas DiseaseFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNitroimidazolesTrypanocidal AgentsYoung AdultbenzonidazoleNitroimidazolesTrypanocidal Agents

Identifiers

PMID20823286
PMCPMC2976114
OpenAlexW2162042226

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