The failure of screening and treating as a malaria elimination strategy.

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.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

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

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3. Negligible Impact of Mass Screening and Treatment on Mesoendemic Malaria Transmission at West Timor in Eastern Indonesia: A Cluster-Randomized Trial.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2018
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4. Mass screening and treatment (MSaT) for identifying and treating asymptomatic cases of malaria-malaria elimination demonstration project (MEDP), Mandla, Madhya Pradesh.Malaria journal · 2022
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5. Field performance of ultrasensitive and conventional malaria rapid diagnostic tests in southern Mozambique.Malaria journal · 2020
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6. Field performance of the malaria highly sensitive rapid diagnostic test in a setting of varying malaria transmission.Malaria journal · 2019
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7. Gametocyte carriage in an era of changing malaria epidemiology: A 19-year analysis of a malaria longitudinal cohort.Wellcome open research · 2019
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8. Entomological determinants of malaria transmission in Kayin state, Eastern Myanmar: A 24-month longitudinal study in four villages.Wellcome open research · 2018
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9. International survey to identify diagnostic needs to support malaria elimination: guiding the development of combination highly sensitive rapid diagnostic tests.Malaria journal · 2017
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10. Spatial Distribution of Falciparum Malaria Infections in Zanzibar: Implications for Focal Drug Administration Strategies Targeting Asymptomatic Parasite Carriers.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2017
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11. Spatial clustering of patent and sub-patent malaria infections in northern Namibia: Implications for surveillance and response strategies for elimination.PloS one · 2017
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12. Household clustering of asymptomatic malaria infections in Xepon district, Savannakhet province, Lao PDR.Malaria journal · 2016
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13. Common asymptomatic and submicroscopic malaria infections in Western Thailand revealed in longitudinal molecular and serological studies: a challenge to malaria elimination.Malaria journal · 2016
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14. Asymptomatic Plasmodium infections in 18 villages of southern Savannakhet Province, Lao PDR (Laos).Malaria journal · 2016
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15. Reactive case-detection of malaria in Pailin Province, Western Cambodia: lessons from a year-long evaluation in a pre-elimination setting.Malaria journal · 2016
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16. Optimal Population-Level Infection Detection Strategies for Malaria Control and Elimination in a Spatial Model of Malaria Transmission.PLoS computational biology · 2016
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17. The epidemiology of subclinical malaria infections in South-East Asia: findings from cross-sectional surveys in Thailand-Myanmar border areas, Cambodia, and Vietnam.Malaria journal · 2015
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18. Predicting the impact of border control on malaria transmission: a simulated focal screen and treat campaign.Malaria journal · 2015
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19. Mass screening and treatment on the basis of results of a Plasmodium falciparum-specific rapid diagnostic test did not reduce malaria incidence in Zanzibar.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2015
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20. Mass campaigns with antimalarial drugs: a modelling comparison of artemether-lumefantrine and DHA-piperaquine with and without primaquine as tools for malaria control and elimination.BMC infectious diseases · 2015
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