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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Impact and cost-effectiveness of snail control to achieve disease control targets for schistosomiasis.

Nathan C Lo, David Gurarie, Nara Yoon, Jean T Coulibaly, Eran Bendavid, Jason R Andrews, Charles H King

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 82 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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82citing papers in PubMed, 6 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

82 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 133 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. SCORE Studies on the Impact of Drug Treatment on Morbidity due toThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020
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  8. SCORE Operational Research on Moving toward Interruption of Schistosomiasis Transmission.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020
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  20. Applications of CRISPR in Parasitology.Current pharmaceutical biotechnology · 2025
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22 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

7 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Nathan C LoDivision of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305; nathan.lo@stanford.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-5407-2005
David GurarieDepartment of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106.ORCID 0000-0002-5314-7888
Nara YoonDepartment of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106.
Jean T CoulibalyUnité de Formation et de Recherche Biosciences, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan 01, Côte d'Ivoire.
Eran BendavidPrimary Care and Population Health, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
Jason R AndrewsDivision of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305.
Charles H KingCenter for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106.
Stanford University · USCase Western Reserve University · USCenter for Global Health · USSwiss Tropical and Public Health Institute · CHUniversity of Georgia · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease that affects over 240 million people globally. To improve population-level disease control, there is growing interest in adding chemical-based snail control interventions to interrupt the lifecycle of

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Models, EconomicSnailsAnimalsComputer SimulationCost-Benefit AnalysisHumansKenyaSchistosomiasiscost-effectivenessenvironmental controlepidemiologymathematical modelingparasitology

Identifiers

PMID29301964
PMCPMC5789907
OpenAlexW2781961392

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