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ArticleOpen forum infectious diseases2018

Human Thelaziasis: Emerging Ocular Pathogen in Nepal.

Ranjit Sah, Shusila Khadka, Mahesh Adhikari, Reema Niraula, Apoorva Shah, Anadi Khatri, Suzanne Donovan

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Article in Open forum infectious diseases, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. Human Ocular Thelaziasis: A Case Report.JNMA; journal of the Nepal Medical Association · 2021
    Article
  4. The Vector-Borne Zoonotic NematodePathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
    Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Incidental Discovery of ConjunctivalCase reports in ophthalmology
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ranjit SahDepartment of Microbiology, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal.ORCID 0000-0002-2695-8714
Shusila KhadkaDepartment of Microbiology, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Mahesh AdhikariDepartment of Microbiology, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Reema NiraulaDepartment of Ophthalmology, BP Koirala Lions Centre for Ophthalmic Studies, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Apoorva ShahDepartment of Ophthalmology, BP Koirala Lions Centre for Ophthalmic Studies, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Anadi KhatriDepartment of Ophthalmology, BP Koirala Lions Centre for Ophthalmic Studies, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Suzanne DonovanDepartment of Medicine (Division of infectious Diseases), Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, California.
Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital · NPOlive View-UCLA Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thelaziasis is an ocular arthropod-borne, zoonotic disease of the eye infecting the conjunctival sac, lacrimal duct, and lacrimal gland caused by a nematode of the genus

Indexed as

NepalPhortica variegataThelazia callipaedaThelaziasiszoonotic disease

Identifiers

PMID30349847
PMCPMC6189630
OpenAlexW2890103346

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