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ArticlePeerJ2019

Mercuric pollution of surface water, superficial sediments, Nile tilapia (

Timothy Omara, Shakilah Karungi, Raymond Kalukusu, BrendaVictoria Nakabuye, Sarah Kagoya, Bashir Musau

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Article in PeerJ, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 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

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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

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

6 authors.

Timothy Omara *Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Biological and Physical Sciences, Moi University, Uasin Gishu County, Kesses, Eldoret, Kenya.
Shakilah Karungi *Department of Mining and Water Resources Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Busitema University, Busitema, Tororo, Uganda.
Raymond KalukusuDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyambogo University, Kyambogo, Kampala, Uganda.
BrendaVictoria NakabuyeDepartment of Quality Control and Quality Assurance, Leading Distillers Uganda Limited, Kampala, Uganda.
Sarah KagoyaDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyambogo University, Kyambogo, Kampala, Uganda.
Bashir MusauDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyambogo University, Kyambogo, Kampala, Uganda.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The mercury content and the contamination characteristics of water, sediments, edible muscles of a non-piscivorous fish (

Indexed as

Artisanal gold miningBusia gold districtContamination factorDioscorea alataEstimated Daily IntakeGeoaccumulation indexMercury contaminationNamukombe streamOreochromis nilotica Linnaeus 1758 [Cichlidae]Sediments

Identifiers

PMID31656704
PMCPMC6812675

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