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ArticleThe Journal of infectious diseases2017

Nitazoxanide Is an Ineffective Treatment of Chronic Norovirus in Patients With X-Linked Agammaglobulinemia and May Yield False-Negative Polymerase Chain Reaction Findings in Stool Specimens.

Bjoern Kempf, J David Edgar, Conall Mc Caughey, Lisa A Devlin

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Article in The Journal of infectious diseases, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Chronic persistent Norovirus in the immune-compromised host.Current opinion in infectious diseases · 2025
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  4. Outcomes of X-Linked Agammaglobulinaemia Patients.Journal of clinical immunology · 2024
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  7. Sapovirus infection as another cause of persistent viral diarrhea: case series and review of the literature.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2024
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  15. Norovirus antivirals: Where are we now?Medicinal research reviews · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Bjoern KempfQueen's University Belfast.
J David EdgarRoyal Victoria Hospital Belfast, United Kingdom.
Conall Mc CaugheyRoyal Victoria Hospital Belfast, United Kingdom.
Lisa A DevlinRoyal Victoria Hospital Belfast, United Kingdom.
University of Ulster · GBQueen's University Belfast · GBRoyal Victoria Hospital · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Antiviral AgentsCaliciviridae InfectionsAgammaglobulinemiaGenetic Diseases, X-LinkedHumansMutagenesisNitro CompoundsNorovirusPolymerase Chain ReactionThiazolesAntiviral AgentsnitazoxanideNitro CompoundsThiazoles

Identifiers

PMID28362905
OpenAlexW2594578454

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.