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ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2018

Nigani Willie, Peter A Zimmerman, Rajeev K Mehlotra

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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 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nigani WillieCenter for Global Health and Diseases, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio.
Peter A ZimmermanCenter for Global Health and Diseases, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio.
Rajeev K MehlotraCenter for Global Health and Diseases, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio.
Case Western Reserve University · USCenter for Global Health · US

Funding

CASE-PNG Infectious Disease Research Training ProgramD43TW007377 · FIC · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI KAZURA, JAMES WALTER, ZIMMERMAN, PETER A. · 2005 to 2015
$2.0M
FIC NIH HHS D43 TW007377
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Genetic VariationAntigens, ProtozoanDiagnostic Tests, RoutineEndemic DiseasesEpitopesHumansMalaria, FalciparumPapua New GuineaPlasmodium falciparumProtozoan ProteinsSensitivity and SpecificityAntigens, ProtozoanEpitopesHRP-2 antigen, Plasmodium falciparumProtozoan Proteins

Identifiers

PMID29968556
PMCPMC6169185
OpenAlexW2809897921

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.