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ArticleWellcome open research2018

Seasonal upsurge of pneumococcal meningitis in the Central African Republic.

Thomas Crellen, V Bhargavi Rao, Turid Piening, Joke Zeydner, M Ruby Siddiqui

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Article in Wellcome open research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Thomas CrellenDepartment of Mathematical and Economic Modelling, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2934-1063
V Bhargavi RaoMédecins Sans Frontières, London, EC4A 1AB, UK.
Turid PieningMédecins Sans Frontières, Berlin, 10179, Germany.
Joke ZeydnerMédecins Sans Frontières Operational Centre Amsterdam, Bangui, Boite Postale 1793, Central African Republic.
M Ruby SiddiquiMédecins Sans Frontières, London, EC4A 1AB, UK.
Médecins Sans Frontières‎ · GBUniversity of Bangui · CF

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A high incidence of bacterial meningitis was observed in the Central African Republic (CAR) from December 2015 to May 2017 in three hospitals in the northwest of the country that are within the African meningitis belt. The majority of cases were caused by

Indexed as

African meningitis beltCentral African Republicmeningococcal meningitisNeisseria meningitidispneumococcal meningitisStreptococcus pneumoniae

Identifiers

PMID31069258
PMCPMC6480959
OpenAlexW2896266991

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