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ReviewAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2020

100 Years of Suramin.

Natalie Wiedemar, Dennis A Hauser, Pascal Mäser

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In one paragraph

Review in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 100 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
100citing papers in PubMed
19.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

100 citing papers in PubMed, 181 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. The role of HMGA1 in genome stability: Implications in human cancer.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2026
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  18. Possible Interaction of Suramin with Thalamic P2X Receptors and NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation Alleviates Reserpine-Induced Fibromyalgia-Like Symptoms.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2025
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40 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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.

Natalie WiedemarSwiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Basel, Switzerland.
Dennis A HauserSwiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Basel, Switzerland.
Pascal MäserSwiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Basel, Switzerland pascal.maeser@unibas.ch.ORCID 0000-0003-3122-1941
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Suramin is 100 years old and is still being used to treat the first stage of acute human sleeping sickness, caused by

Indexed as

AnimalsHumansSuraminTrypanocidal AgentsTrypanosoma brucei rhodesienseTrypanosomiasis, AfricanSuraminTrypanocidal Agentshuman African trypanosomiasispolypharmacologysleeping sicknesssuraminTrypanosoma brucei

Identifiers

PMID31844000
PMCPMC7038244
OpenAlexW2995552435

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.