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ReviewJournal of clinical microbiology2018

Assessing the Burden of Clostridium difficile Infection in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

G A Roldan, A X Cui, N R Pollock

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Review in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37citing papers in PubMed
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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

37 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Epidemiology ofAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  3. Global Burden, Trends, and Inequalities ofAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  5. The Global Burden ofInfectious disease reports · 2025
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  6. Comprehensive review ofWorld journal of gastrointestinal pharmacology and therapeutics · 2025
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  7. Microbial genomics · 2025
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  9. Microbial genomics · 2025
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  11. Mortality Attributable toMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024
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  12. Journal of clinical medicine · 2024
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  15. Insights into the Evolving Epidemiology ofAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
    Review
  16. Stool Interleukin-1β Differentiates Clostridioides difficile Infection (CDI) From Asymptomatic Carriage and Non-CDI Diarrhea.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023
    Article
  17. Article
  18. Prevalence of diagnostically-discrepantFrontiers in medicine · 2023
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  19. Make It LessGenes · 2022
    Review
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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.

G A RoldanDivision of Gastroenterology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
A X CuiDivision of Gastroenterology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
N R PollockDivision of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA nira.pollock@childrens.harvard.edu.

Funding

Ultrasensitive C.difficile toxin measurement for diagnosis and outcome predictionR01AI116596 · NIAID · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI POLLOCK, NIRA · 2016 to 2020
$4.1M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI116596
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In contrast to the significant resources invested in the diagnosis and prevention of

Indexed as

Clostridioides difficileDeveloping CountriesAfrica South of the SaharaAsiaClostridium InfectionsGlobal HealthHumansPrevalenceRisk FactorsSouth AmericaCDIC. difficile infectionClostridioidesClostridium difficileglobal healthlow incomemiddle incomeresource limited

Identifiers

PMID29305541
PMCPMC5824057

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