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ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2018

Evan M Bloch, Mabula Kasubi, Andrew Levin, Zakayo Mrango, Jerusha Weaver, Beatriz Munoz, Sheila K West

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Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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18citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  8. A case of babesiosis in a returning traveller.Southern African journal of infectious diseases · 2024
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  9. Transfusion-transmittedJournal of clinical microbiology · 2023
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  14. The Global Emergence of Human Babesiosis.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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  15. Preventing Transfusion-Transmitted Babesiosis.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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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

7 authors.

Evan M BlochDepartment of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Mabula KasubiDepartment of Microbiology, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Andrew LevinImmunetics, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts.
Zakayo MrangoNational Institute for Medical Research, Kilosa, Tanzania.
Jerusha WeaverDana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Beatriz MunozDana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Sheila K WestDana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Antibodies, ProtozoanBabesia microtiBabesiosisChild, PreschoolCoinfectionCross ReactionsDried Blood Spot TestingEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayErythrocytesFemaleHumansInfantInfant, NewbornMalaria, FalciparumMalePilot ProjectsAntibodies, Protozoan

Identifiers

PMID29637884
PMCPMC6085789

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