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ArticleJournal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology2016

Parasites and immunotherapy: with or against?

Hossein Yousofi Darani, Morteza Yousefi, Marzieh Safari, Rasool Jafari

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Article in Journal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Frontiers in oncology · 2026
    Article
  2. Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023
    Review
  3. How the gut parasitome affects human health.Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology · 2022
    Review
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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Hossein Yousofi DaraniCancer Prevention Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Morteza YousefiStudent Research Committee, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran.
Marzieh SafariDepartment of Medical Microbiology, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
Rasool JafariDepartment of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences · IRHamedan University of Medical Sciences · IRShahrekord University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunotherapy is a sort of therapy in which antibody or antigen administrates to the patient in order to treat or reduce the severity of complications of disease. This kind of treatment practiced in a wide variety of diseases including infectious diseases, autoimmune disorders, cancers and allergy. Successful and unsuccessful immunotherapeutic strategies have been practiced in variety of parasitic infections. On the other hand parasites or parasite antigens have also been considered for immunotherapy against other diseases such as cancer, asthma and multiple sclerosis. In this paper immunotherapy against common parasitic infections, and also immunotherapy of cancer, asthma and multiple sclerosis with parasites or parasite antigens have been reviewed.

Indexed as

AsthmaCancerImmunotherapyMultiple SclerosisParasiteParasitic diseases

Identifiers

PMID27413282
PMCPMC4927515
OpenAlexW2016453203

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