Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29401652›Full record

ArticleInsects2018

Establishment Success of the Beetle Tapeworm Hymenolepis diminuta Depends on Dose and Host Body Condition.

Suraj Dhakal, Sebastian Micki Buss, Elizabeth Jane Cassidy, Nicolai Vitt Meyling, Brian Lund Fredensborg

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Article in Insects, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing 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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. The TapewormPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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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.

Suraj DhakalSection for Organismal Biology, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark. sura@plen.ku.dk.ORCID 0000-0002-1147-8160
Sebastian Micki BussSection for Organismal Biology, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark. sura@plen.ku.dk.ORCID 0000-0002-1147-8160
Elizabeth Jane CassidySection for Organismal Biology, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark. sura@plen.ku.dk.ORCID 0000-0002-1147-8160
Nicolai Vitt MeylingSection for Organismal Biology, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark. sura@plen.ku.dk.ORCID 0000-0002-1147-8160
Brian Lund FredensborgSection for Organismal Biology, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark. sura@plen.ku.dk.ORCID 0000-0002-4837-5974

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Parasite effects on host fitness and immunology are often intensity-dependent. Unfortunately, only few experimental studies on insect-parasite interactions attempt to control the level of infection, which may contribute substantial variation to the fitness or immunological parameters of interest. The tapeworm

Indexed as

cysticercoid establishmenthost immune competenceHymenolepis diminutainvertebrate–parasite modelTenebrio molitor

Identifiers

PMID29401652
PMCPMC5872279

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