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ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2019

Testing the Infection Prevalence of

Miriam Price, Austin Cyrs, Chummy S Sikasunge, James Mwansa, Nilanjan Lodh

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Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Rapid and Sensitive Detection ofTropical medicine and infectious disease · 2026
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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

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Miriam PriceDepartment of Clinical Laboratory Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Austin CyrsDepartment of Clinical Laboratory Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Chummy S SikasungeDepartment of Para-clinical Studies, The University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia.
James MwansaUniversity Teaching Hospital, The University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia.
Nilanjan LodhDepartment of Clinical Laboratory Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Marquette University · USUniversity of Zambia · ZMUniversity Teaching Hospital · ZM

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Schistosomiasis is a blood parasitic disease caused by trematode parasites of the genus

Indexed as

Mass Drug AdministrationNucleic Acid Amplification TechniquesSchistosoma mansoniAdolescentAnimalsChildCross-Sectional StudiesDNA, HelminthFecesHumansPraziquantelPrevalenceSchistosomiasis mansoniSensitivity and SpecificitySpecies SpecificityDNA, HelminthPraziquantel

Identifiers

PMID31115299
PMCPMC6609171
OpenAlexW2944833358

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.