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ReviewTropical medicine and health2020

Tharmegan Tharmaratnam, Thirunavukarasu Kumanan, Mina Amin Iskandar, Katrina D'Urzo, Prasaanthan Gopee-Ramanan, Mayura Loganathan, Tyler Tabobondung, Taylor Anthony Tabobondung, Seyon Sivagurunathan, Mitul Patel and 1 more

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Review in Tropical medicine and health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. [Amoebic liver abscess in a patient from Gambia].Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia · 2023
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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

11 authors at 7 institutions in 4 countries.

Tharmegan Tharmaratnam1School of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-7867-2689
Thirunavukarasu Kumanan3Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna, Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
Mina Amin Iskandar1School of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Katrina D'Urzo1School of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Prasaanthan Gopee-Ramanan5Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Hamilton Health Sciences Centre, Hamilton, ON Canada.
Mayura Loganathan7Academic Family Health Team, Mount Sinai Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada.
Tyler TabobondungDepartment of Family Medicine, Brantford General Hospital, Hamilton, ON Canada.
Taylor Anthony Tabobondung11Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada.
Seyon Sivagurunathan10Department of Family Medicine, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON Canada.
Mitul Patel2School of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland-Bahrain, Busaiteen, Bahrain.
Iqdam Tobbia1School of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland · IEUniversity of Toronto · CAHamilton Health Sciences · CAHealth Sciences Centre · CAMount Sinai Hospital · CARoyal College of Surgeons in Ireland - Bahrain · BHUniversity of Jaffna · LK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Amoebic liver abscessEntamoeba histolyticaProtozoanSri Lanka

Identifiers

PMID31992948
PMCPMC6977265
OpenAlexW3009715544

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Registered trials

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