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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2017

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Alfred Amambua-Ngwa, Joseph Okebe, Haddijatou Mbye, Sukai Ceesay, Fatima El-Fatouri, Fatou Joof, Haddy Nyang, Ramatoulie Janha, Muna Affara, Abdullahi Ahmad and 3 more

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 24 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

13 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Alfred Amambua-NgwaMedical Research Council Unit The Gambia, Fajara, The Gambia angwa@mrc.gm.
Joseph OkebeMedical Research Council Unit The Gambia, Fajara, The Gambia.
Haddijatou MbyeMedical Research Council Unit The Gambia, Fajara, The Gambia.
Sukai CeesayMedical Research Council Unit The Gambia, Fajara, The Gambia.
Fatima El-FatouriMedical Research Council Unit The Gambia, Fajara, The Gambia.
Fatou JoofMedical Research Council Unit The Gambia, Fajara, The Gambia.
Haddy NyangMedical Research Council Unit The Gambia, Fajara, The Gambia.
Ramatoulie JanhaMedical Research Council Unit The Gambia, Fajara, The Gambia.
Muna AffaraMedical Research Council Unit The Gambia, Fajara, The Gambia.
Abdullahi AhmadMedical Research Council Unit The Gambia, Fajara, The Gambia.
Olimatou KollyNational Malaria Control Programme, Banjul, The Gambia.
Davis NwakanmaMedical Research Council Unit The Gambia, Fajara, The Gambia.
Umberto D'AlessandroMedical Research Council Unit The Gambia, Fajara, The Gambia.
MRC Unit the Gambia · GMLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_EX_MR/K02440X/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antimalarial interventions have yielded a significant decline in malaria prevalence in The Gambia, where artemether-lumefantrine (AL) has been used as a first-line antimalarial for a decade. Clinical

Indexed as

AmodiaquineAntimalarialsArtemisininsATP-Binding Cassette, Sub-Family C ProteinsChloroquineDrug ResistanceDrug Therapy, CombinationEthanolaminesFluorenesGambiaHumansLumefantrineMalaria, FalciparumMembrane Transport ProteinsMicrosatellite RepeatsParasitic Sensitivity TestsAmodiaquineAntimalarialsArtemisininsartenimolATP-Binding Cassette, Sub-Family C ProteinsChloroquineEthanolaminesFluorenesLumefantrineMdr1 protein, Plasmodium falciparumMembrane Transport ProteinsPfCRT protein, Plasmodium falciparumProtozoan ProteinsQuinolinesallelesantimalarial agentsartemisinin combination therapiesdrug resistance evolutionex vivo susceptibilityhaplotypesmalaria elimination

Identifiers

PMID28971859
PMCPMC5700332
OpenAlexW2761655119

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Registered trials

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