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ArticleBulletin of the World Health Organization2017

Syphilis screening and treatment: integration with HIV services.

Melanie M Taylor, Mary Kamb, Dadong Wu, Sarah Hawkes

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Article in Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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7citing 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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Antibiotic treatment for newborns with congenital syphilis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019
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  3. Seroprevalence and Risk Factors of Sexually Transmitted Blood-Borne Infections among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Care in Jirapa, Upper West Region of Ghana.The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 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.

Melanie M TaylorDepartment of Reproductive Health, World Health Organization, avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.
Mary KambDivision of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, United States of America.
Dadong WuInstitute for Global Health, University College London, London, England.
Sarah HawkesInstitute for Global Health, University College London, London, England.

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Delivery of Health Care, IntegratedSyphilisSyphilis SerodiagnosisChildChinaFemaleHIV InfectionsHumansInfant, NewbornInfectious Disease Transmission, VerticalMass ScreeningPregnancyPregnancy Complications, InfectiousStillbirth

Identifiers

PMID28867837
PMCPMC5578388

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