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ArticlePLoS neglected tropical diseases2011

Spontaneous clearance of Mycobacterium ulcerans in a case of Buruli ulcer.

Claire L Gordon, John A Buntine, John A Hayman, Caroline J Lavender, Janet A Fyfe, Patrick Hosking, Paul D R Johnson

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Article in PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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17citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Drugs for treating Buruli ulcer (Mycobacterium ulcerans disease).The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018
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  4. Buruli Ulcer: a Review of the Current Knowledge.Current tropical medicine reports · 2018
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  6. Susceptibility toFrontiers in microbiology · 2017
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  7. The chemistry and biology of mycolactones.Beilstein journal of organic chemistry · 2017
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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.

Claire L GordonDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia.
John A Buntine
John A Hayman
Caroline J Lavender
Janet A Fyfe
Patrick Hosking
Paul D R Johnson

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AgedBacteriological TechniquesBuruli UlcerHistocytochemistryHumansLegMaleMicroscopyMycobacterium ulceransPolymerase Chain Reaction

Identifiers

PMID22039555
PMCPMC3201911

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