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ArticleTropical medicine and infectious disease2019

Epidemiology, Risk Factors and Seasonal Variation of Scrub Typhus Fever in Central Nepal.

Rajendra Gautam, Keshab Parajuli, Jeevan Bahadur Sherchand

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Article in Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Estimating the Seroprevalence of Scrub Typhus in Nepal.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  16. Scrub Typhus and Molecular Characterization ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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  18. Mapping Environmental Suitability of Scrub Typhus in Nepal Using MaxEnt and Random Forest Models.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019
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  19. Evaluation of Scrub Typhus Surveillance, Alwar District, Rajasthan, India, July-August 2020.Indian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine
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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Rajendra GautamDepartment of Microbiology, Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu 44600 Nepal. gautamrajen@gmail.com.
Keshab ParajuliDepartment of Microbiology, Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu 44600 Nepal. drkparajuli@iom.edu.np.
Jeevan Bahadur SherchandDepartment of Microbiology, Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu 44600 Nepal. jeevanbsherchand@gmail.com.
Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital · NP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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ELISANepalOrientia tsutsugamushiscrub typhus

Identifiers

PMID30717408
PMCPMC6473611
OpenAlexW2914805829

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