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Trial reportAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2020

High-Dose Chloroquine for Uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Is Well Tolerated and Causes Similar QT Interval Prolongation as Standard-Dose Chloroquine in Children.

Johan Ursing, Lars Rombo, Staffan Eksborg, Lena Larson, Anita Bruvoll, Joel Tarning, Amabelia Rodrigues, Poul-Erik Kofoed

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In one paragraph

Trial report 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 18 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed
5.0field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2020
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  8. The host targeting effect of chloroquine in malaria.Current opinion in immunology · 2020
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  13. Chloroquine-induced QTc prolongation in COVID-19 patients.Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2020
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  15. Safety considerations with chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin in the management of SARS-CoV-2 infection.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2020
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  16. Therapeutic Strategies in the Management of COVID-19.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2020
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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

8 authors at 4 institutions in 5 countries.

Johan UrsingProjecto de Saúde de Bandim, Indepth Network, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau johan.ursing@sll.se poul.erik.kofoed@rsyd.dk.ORCID 0000-0002-5508-9327
Lars RomboCentre for Clinical Research, Sörmland County Council, Eskilstuna, Sweden.
Staffan EksborgDepartment of Women's and Children's Health, Childhood Cancer Research Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Lena LarsonProjecto de Saúde de Bandim, Indepth Network, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau.
Anita BruvollProjecto de Saúde de Bandim, Indepth Network, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau.
Joel TarningCentre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-4566-4030
Amabelia RodriguesProjecto de Saúde de Bandim, Indepth Network, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau.
Poul-Erik KofoedProjecto de Saúde de Bandim, Indepth Network, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau johan.ursing@sll.se poul.erik.kofoed@rsyd.dk.
Bandim Health Project · GWKarolinska Institutet · SEMahidol University · THUppsala University · SE

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Higher chloroquine doses can effectively treat up to 93 to 96% of malaria infections caused by

Indexed as

AntimalarialsChildChild, PreschoolChloroquineDose-Response Relationship, DrugDrug ResistanceElectrocardiographyFemaleGene ExpressionGuinea-BissauHumansLong QT SyndromeMalaria, FalciparumMaleMembrane Transport ProteinsParasite LoadAntimalarialsChloroquineMembrane Transport ProteinsPfCRT protein, Plasmodium falciparumProtozoan Proteinscardiac safetychloroquineGuinea-BissaupfcrtpharmacokineticsPlasmodium falciparumtolerabilitytreatment

Identifiers

PMID31907183
PMCPMC7038251
OpenAlexW2998317607

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