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ArticleOpen forum infectious diseases2018

Multiplicity of Infection Is a Poor Predictor of Village-Level

Cristian Koepfli, Andreea Waltmann, Maria Ome-Kaius, Leanne J Robinson, Ivo Mueller

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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. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Cristian KoepfliPopulation Health & Immunity Division, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Parkville, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-9354-0414
Andreea WaltmannPopulation Health & Immunity Division, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Parkville, Australia.
Maria Ome-KaiusPopulation Health & Immunity Division, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Parkville, Australia.
Leanne J RobinsonPopulation Health & Immunity Division, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Parkville, Australia.
Ivo MuellerPopulation Health & Immunity Division, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Parkville, Australia.
The University of Melbourne · AUBurnet Institute · AUInstitut Pasteur · FRUniversity of Notre Dame · US

Funding

TransmissionU19AI089686 · NIAID · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI KAZURA, JAMES WALTER · 2010 to 2016
$9.9M
Understanding, tracking and eliminating malaria transmission in the Asia - Pacific RegionU19AI129392 · NIAID · WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INST MEDICAL RES · PI Ivo J Mueller · 2017 to 2026
$7.1M
NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI089686NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI129392
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Across 8101 individuals in 46 villages, the proportion of

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foci of transmissiongenotypingmalaria transmissionmultiple clone infectionprevalence

Identifiers

PMID30397622
PMCPMC6210381
OpenAlexW2890187552

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