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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2013

Plague epidemics and lice, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Renaud Piarroux, Aaron Aruna Abedi, Jean-Christophe Shako, Benoit Kebela, Stomy Karhemere, Georges Diatta, Bernard Davoust, Didier Raoult, Michel Drancourt

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
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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

30 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Head lice as vectors of pathogenic microorganisms.Tropical medicine and health · 2023
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  6. Human pediculosis, a global public health problem.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2022
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  8. High Genetic Diversity andFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022
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  12. Yersinia pestis: the Natural History of Plague.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2020
    Review
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  14. Human plague: An old scourge that needs new answers.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2020
    Review
  15. Article
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  18. Where Are We With Human Lice? A Review of the Current State of Knowledge.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Renaud Piarroux
Aaron Aruna Abedi
Jean-Christophe Shako
Benoit Kebela
Stomy Karhemere
Georges Diatta
Bernard Davoust
Didier Raoult
Michel Drancourt

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AnimalsBartonella quintanaDemocratic Republic of the CongoEpidemicsHumansInsect VectorsLice InfestationsMolecular TypingPhthirapteraPlagueYersinia pestis

Identifiers

PMID23750356
PMCPMC3647677

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