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ArticleGlobal pediatric health2017

Typhoid and Scrub Typhus Coinfection in a Returned Traveler.

Christopher Wen-Xing Seow, Veena Logarajah, Natalie Woon Hui Tan

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Article in Global pediatric health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Christopher Wen-Xing SeowKK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
Veena LogarajahKK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
Natalie Woon Hui TanKK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
KK Women's and Children's Hospital · SGNanyang Technological University · SG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This is a case report of a 12-year-old returned traveler with typhoid and scrub typhus coinfection. The diagnosis of typhoid was made early with blood cultures and Widal Weil Felix serology. Persistent fever despite appropriate antibiotics for typhoid fever prompted a search for concomitant infection, which led to the diagnosis of scrub typhus confirmed by

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coinfectionsgeneral pediatricsinfectious diseasesOrientia tsutsugamushiscrub typhustyphoid

Identifiers

PMID28890912
PMCPMC5574469
OpenAlexW2748807341

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