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ReviewTherapeutic advances in infectious disease2018

The global problem of childhood diarrhoeal diseases: emerging strategies in prevention and management.

Margaret Mokomane, Ishmael Kasvosve, Emilia de Melo, Jeffrey M Pernica, David M Goldfarb

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Review in Therapeutic advances in infectious disease, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 120 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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120citing papers in PubMed, 7 pooled it
10.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

120 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 260 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 2 countries.

Margaret MokomaneDepartment of Medical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana; Botswana National Health Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Gaborone, Botswana.
Ishmael KasvosveDepartment of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana.
Emilia de MeloDepartment of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Jeffrey M PernicaDepartment of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
David M GoldfarbUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
McMaster University · CAUniversity of Botswana · BWUniversity of British Columbia · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute diarrhoeal diseases remain a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality particularly among young children in resource-limited countries. Recent large studies utilizing case-control design, prospective sampling and more sensitive and broad diagnostic techniques have shed light on particular pathogens of importance and highlighted the previously under recognized impact of these infections on post-acute illness mortality and growth. Vaccination, particularly against rotavirus, has emerged as a key effective means of preventing significant morbidity and mortality from childhood diarrhoeal disease. Other candidate vaccines against leading diarrhoeal pathogens, such as enterotoxigenic

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PMID29344358
PMCPMC5761924
OpenAlexW2772983862

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