Underestimate of annual malaria imports to Canada.

Andrea K Boggild, Anne E McCarthy, Michael D Libman, David O Freedman, Kevin C Kain

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Article in The Lancet. Infectious diseases, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing 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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

The Paradigm Shift of Using Natural Molecules Extracted from Northern Canada to Combat Malaria.Infectious disease reports · 2024
Review
Gaps in knowledge and practices of malaria prevention in Francophone African immigrants in Metropolitan Edmonton.Malaria journal · 2022
Article
Epidemiologic Trends in Malaria Incidence Among Travelers Returning to Metropolitan France, 1996-2016.JAMA network open · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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Underestimate of annual malaria imports to Canada - Author reply.2017
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The geography of imported malaria to non-endemic countries: a meta-analysis of nationally reported statistics.2017

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Andrea K BoggildTropical Disease Unit, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Public Health Ontario Laboratories, Toronto, ON, Canada. Electronic address: andrea.boggild@utoronto.ca.

Anne E McCarthyTropical Medicine and International Health Clinic, Division of Infectious Diseases, Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Michael D LibmanThe JD MacLean Centre for Tropical Diseases, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Microbiology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.

David O FreedmanCenter for Geographic Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.

Kevin C KainTropical Disease Unit, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; SAR Laboratories, Sandra Rotman Centre for Global Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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CommerceMalariaCanadaHumans

Identifiers

PMID28134112

DOI10.1016/S1473-3099(17)30010-5

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