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ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2018

Anita D Sircar, Pauline N M Mwinzi, Isaac O Onkanga, Ryan E Wiegand, Susan P Montgomery, W Evan Secor

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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 15 papers, 3 of them syntheses that 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. SCORE Studies on the Impact of Drug Treatment on Morbidity due toThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020
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  5. Five-Year Impact of Different Multi-Year Mass Drug Administration Strategies on ChildhoodThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2019
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  6. Effect of Artemisia annua and Artemisia afra tea infusions on schistosomiasis in a large clinical trial.Phytomedicine : international journal of phytotherapy and phytopharmacology · 2018
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  7. Differences in novelFrontiers in parasitology · 2026
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  12. Risk Factors and Spatial Distribution ofJournal of tropical medicine · 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

6 authors.

Anita D SircarDivision of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
Pauline N M MwinziCenter for Global Health Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya.
Isaac O OnkangaCenter for Global Health Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya.
Ryan E WiegandDivision of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
Susan P MontgomeryDivision of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
W Evan SecorDivision of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Schistosomiasis control programs are designed to reduce morbidity by providing mass drug administration (MDA) of praziquantel to at-risk populations. We compared morbidity markers between two cohorts of Kenyan schoolchildren that initially had high prevalence of

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AlbendazoleAnimalsAnthelminticsChildCohort StudiesCross-Sectional StudiesFecesFemaleGrowth DisordersHumansKenyaMaleMass Drug AdministrationMorbidityParasite Egg CountPraziquantelAlbendazoleAnthelminticsPraziquantelSoil

Identifiers

PMID29893197
PMCPMC6090338

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