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ArticleThe Lancet. Infectious diseases2020

Hepatitis C virus infection in people who inject drugs in Africa.

Rajiv Shah, Pauline Boucheron, Kishor Mandaliya, Alex Kattamaiyo, Stéphane Chevaliez, Yusuke Shimakawa, Elijah Songok, Maud Lemoine

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Article in The Lancet. Infectious diseases, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Rajiv ShahFaculty of Medicine, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Division of Digestive Diseases, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Wing, St Mary's Campus, Imperial College, London W2 1NY, UK.
Pauline BoucheronUnité d'Épidémiologie des Maladies Émergentes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
Kishor MandaliyaPathology, International Centre for Reproductive Health Kenya, Mombasa, Kenya.
Alex KattamaiyoCentre for Virus Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.
Stéphane ChevaliezNational Reference Center for Viral Hepatitis B, C and D, Department of Virology, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Université Paris-Est, Créteil, France.
Yusuke ShimakawaUnité d'Épidémiologie des Maladies Émergentes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
Elijah SongokThe KEMRI Graduate School Training Centre, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.
Maud LemoineFaculty of Medicine, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Division of Digestive Diseases, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Wing, St Mary's Campus, Imperial College, London W2 1NY, UK. Electronic address: m.lemoine@imperial.ac.uk.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Hepatitis CSubstance Abuse, IntravenousHepacivirusHumansIncidenceKenyaPrevalenceRetrospective StudiesRisk-Taking

Identifiers

PMID32112757

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