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ArticleInfectious diseases in clinical practice (Baltimore, Md.)2018

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Theodore E Nash, David Sullivan, Edward Mitre, Eric Garges, Victoria J Davey, Gary Roselle, Stephen J Davies, Peter D Rumm

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Article in Infectious diseases in clinical practice (Baltimore, Md.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Natural history of liver fluke infection underpins epidemiological patterns of biliary cancer.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
    Article
  2. Diagnosis of IndolentFederal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2023
    Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Theodore E NashLaboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
David SullivanDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
Edward MitreDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, MD.
Eric GargesDivision of Tropical Public Health, Department of Preventive Medicine, USUHS, Bethesda, MD.
Victoria J DaveyOffice of Research and Development, Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), Washington, DC.
Gary RoselleNational Infectious Diseases Service, VA, Cincinnati, OH.
Stephen J DaviesDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, MD.
Peter D RummPost Deployment Health Services, VA, Washington, DC.

Funding

Studies of neurocysticercosis and animal cestode infectionsZIAAI000846 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI NASH, THEODORE · 2009 to 2020
$9.5M
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 AI999999Intramural VA VA999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID30705580
PMCPMC6349391

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