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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2015

Leeches as further potential vectors for rickettsial infections.

Günther Slesak, Saythong Inthalath, Sabine Dittrich, Daniel H Paris, Paul N Newton

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Ethno-etiology meets virology: land leeches (family: Haemadipsidae) as potential disease vectors.Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2026
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  3. Land Leech Bite AssociatedBalkan medical journal · 2026
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  4. Microorganisms · 2025
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  6. Searching and Finding the Hidden Treasure: A Retrospective Analysis of Rickettsial Disease Among Dutch International Travelers.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021
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  7. First report ofEmerging microbes & infections · 2020
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  12. Reply to Slesak et al.: So much about Rickettsia felis infection to be discovered.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Günther SlesakDepartment of Tropical Medicine, Tropenklinik Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus, 72076 Tübingen, Germany; slesak@tropenklinik.de.
Saythong InthalathLuang Namtha Provincial Health Department, Luang Namtha, Lao People's Democratic Republic;
Sabine DittrichDepartment of Microbiology, Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic; Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, University of Oxford, OX3 7FZ Oxford, United Kingdom.
Daniel H ParisDepartment of Microbiology, Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic; Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, University of Oxford, OX3 7FZ Oxford, United Kingdom.
Paul N NewtonDepartment of Microbiology, Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic; Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, University of Oxford, OX3 7FZ Oxford, United Kingdom.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Insect VectorsAnimalsAnophelesFemaleHumansRickettsia felisRickettsia Infections

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PMID26598652
PMCPMC4672792

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