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ReviewFrontiers in neurology2018

Clinical and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings of Neurotoxocariasis.

Sofia S Sánchez, Hector H García, Alessandra Nicoletti

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in neurology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
5.5field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Human toxocariasis.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2025
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  6. A case report of spinal toxocariasis with extensive tumor-like involvement.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2023
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  8. Toxocara canis infection manifesting as cerebral vasculitis: a case report.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022
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  9. Review
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  12. Clinical spectrum of symptoms in cerebral Toxocariasis (Review).Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2021
    Review
  13. CerebralEncephalitis (Seoul, Korea) · 2021
    Article
  14. "Begging the Question"-DoesPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
    Article
  15. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020
    Article
  16. Lack of evidence for Toxocara infection in Italian myelitis patients.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2020
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  17. Article
  18. Review
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 at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Sofia S SánchezDepartment of Microbiology, School of Public Health (SSS), Center for Global Health - Tumbes (HHG), Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
Hector H GarcíaDepartment of Microbiology, School of Public Health (SSS), Center for Global Health - Tumbes (HHG), Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
Alessandra NicolettiDepartment G. F. Ingrassia, Section of Neurosciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas · PEUniversidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia · PEUniversity of Catania · IT

Funding

Training in Parasitic Diseases and Central Nervous System Infections in Peru.D43TW001140 · FIC · UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA · PI GARCIA, HECTOR HUGO, GILMAN, ROBERT H · 1999 to 2025
$5.7M
FIC NIH HHS D43 TW001140
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human toxocariasis is one of the most prevalent helminthiases worldwide.

Indexed as

central nervous system infectionshelminthsmyelitisneurotoxocariasistoxocariasis

Identifiers

PMID29472889
PMCPMC5809457
OpenAlexW2790230917

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