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ReviewJournal of clinical microbiology2017

Babesia microti: from Mice to Ticks to an Increasing Number of Highly Susceptible Humans.

Lars F Westblade, Matthew S Simon, Blaine A Mathison, Laura A Kirkman

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Review in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
48citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

48 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Global meta-analysis onPathogens and global health · 2022
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  5. Acquired motility ofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  6. Human babesiosis: The past, present and future.Expert reviews in molecular medicine · 2025
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  8. DifferentiatingInfection and immunity · 2025
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  9. Occurrence of tick-borne haemoparasites in South African rodent species evidence ofInternational journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2025
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  12. Orthologs ofMicrobiology spectrum · 2024
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  18. Transfusion-transmittedJournal of clinical microbiology · 2023
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  19. Tick-Borne Diseases of Humans and Animals in West Africa.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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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.

Lars F WestbladeWeill Cornell Medicine, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
Matthew S SimonWeill Cornell Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, New York, New York, USA.
Blaine A MathisonARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Laura A KirkmanWeill Cornell Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, New York, New York, USA lak9015@med.cornell.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntiparasitic AgentsBabesia microtiBabesiosisHemolysisHumansIxodesMiceTick-Borne DiseasesUnited StatesAntiparasitic AgentsBabesia microticlinical significancediagnosisepidemiologyimmunosuppressioninfectionlife cyclepreventionrelapsetransmissiontreatmentUnited States

Identifiers

PMID28747374
PMCPMC5625376

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