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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2020

Human Blastomycosis in South Africa Caused by

Tsidiso G Maphanga, Monica Birkhead, José F Muñoz, Mushal Allam, Thokozile G Zulu, Christina A Cuomo, Ilan S Schwartz, Arshad Ismail, Serisha D Naicker, Ruth S Mpembe and 6 more

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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38citing papers in PubMed
5.5field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

38 citing papers in PubMed, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

16 authors at 6 institutions in 6 countries.

Tsidiso G MaphangaNational Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa tsidisom@nicd.ac.za.ORCID 0000-0002-6117-4309
Monica BirkheadNational Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-7952-7670
José F MuñozBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4987-7957
Mushal AllamNational Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-9875-6716
Thokozile G ZuluNational Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Christina A CuomoBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5778-960X
Ilan S SchwartzUniversity of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Arshad IsmailNational Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-4672-5915
Serisha D NaickerNational Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Ruth S MpembeNational Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Craig CorcoranAmpath National Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Sybren de HoogWesterdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Chris KenyonInstitute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
Andrew M BormanUK National Mycology Reference Laboratory, Public Health England, Bristol, United Kingdom.
John A FreanNational Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Nelesh P GovenderNational Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-7869-9462
National Health Laboratory Service · ZABroad Institute · USInstituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde · BEPublic Health England · GBUniversity of Alberta · CAWesterdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We reevaluated 20 cases of blastomycosis diagnosed in South Africa between 1967 and 2014, with

Indexed as

BlastomycesBlastomycosisHumansMalePhylogenySouth AfricaBlastomycesblastomycosisemergomycosishistoplasmosismycosesSouth Africatuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID31896663
PMCPMC7041581
OpenAlexW2996943929

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