Editorial commentary: Antibiotic self-treatment of travelers' diarrhea: helpful or harmful?

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

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.

Who cites it

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

1. ACG Clinical Guideline: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of Acute Diarrheal Infections in Adults.The American journal of gastroenterology · 2016
   Guideline
2. Trends and Progress on Antibiotic-ResistantThe Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2023
   Review
3. Emergence of antibiotic resistance in immunocompromised host populations: A case study of emerging antibiotic resistant tuberculosis in AIDS patients.PloS one · 2019
   Article
4. Clostridium difficile infection in returning travellers.Journal of travel medicine · 2017
   Article
5. Anatomic, Geographic, and Taxon-Specific Relative Risks of Carbapenem Resistance in the Health Care System of the U.S. Department of Defense.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2016
   Article
6. Antimicrobial resistance acquisition after international travel in U.S. travelers.Tropical diseases, travel medicine and vaccines · 2016
   Article
7. Increased Risk for ESBL-Producing Bacteria from Co-administration of Loperamide and Antimicrobial Drugs for Travelers' Diarrhea.Emerging infectious diseases · 2016
   Article
8. As far as travelers' risk of acquiring resistant intestinal microbes is considered, no antibiotics (absorbable or nonabsorbable) are safe.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2015
   Article

Corrections and comments

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  As far as travelers' risk of acquiring resistant intestinal microbes is considered, no antibiotics (absorbable or nonabsorbable) are safe.2015
• Comment on
  Antimicrobials increase travelers' risk of colonization by extended-spectrum betalactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae.2015

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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