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ArticleFrontiers in public health2018

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Giovanni Gherardi, Luca Agostino Vitali, Roberta Creti

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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58citing 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

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

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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.

Giovanni GherardiMicrobiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome, Italy.
Luca Agostino VitaliMicrobiology Unit, School of Pharmacy, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy.
Roberta CretiDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

background

methodsThe aim of this paper was to provide an updated scenario of the most prevalent GAS

results

conclusionThis study provided a picture of the prevalent

Indexed as

emm typesEuropegroup A streptococcigroup A streptococcus invasive diseaseNorth AmericaStreptococcus pyogenes

Identifiers

PMID29662874
PMCPMC5890186

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