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ReviewJournal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology2017

Free-living amoebae in the water resources of Iran: a systematic review.

Ehsan Saburi, Toktam Rajaii, Asma Behdari, Mohammad Hasan Kohansal, Hossein Vazini

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 30 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

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ehsan SaburiMolecular Medicine and Genetics Department, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Toktam RajaiiParasitology and Mycology Department, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Asma BehdariMicrobiology Tendency, Azad University of Medical Sciences-Zanjan Branch, Zanjan, Iran.
Mohammad Hasan KohansalParasitology and Mycology Department, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Hossein VaziniNursing Department, Basic Sciences Faculty, Hamedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Hamedan, Iran.
Zanjan University of Medical Sciences · IRIslamic Azad University of Hamedan · IRIslamic Azad University of Zanjan · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Free-living amoebae (FLA) are a group of protozoa with the capabilities of growth in the environment and invasion to the human body which have been isolated from different water sources.

Indexed as

Free living AmoebaIranSystematic reviewWater sources

Identifiers

PMID29114120
PMCPMC5660050
OpenAlexW2745970374

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Registered trials

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