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ReviewTropical medicine and infectious disease2020

Scrub Typhus: Historic Perspective and Current Status of the Worldwide Presence of

Allen L Richards, Ju Jiang

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Review in Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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42citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

42 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Transformation and allelic exchange inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  5. Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  7. Analysis of the Epidemiological Characteristics and Risk Factors for Severe Progression of Scrub Typhus in the Dali Region of China.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2026
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  14. Infection and immunity · 2025
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  15. Bilateral Neuroretinitis Induced by Scrub Typhus in China.Neuro-ophthalmology (Aeolus Press) · 2025
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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

2 authors.

Allen L RichardsDepartment of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1065-429X
Ju JiangHenry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20817, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Scrub typhus and its etiological agents,

Indexed as

Orientia speciesscrub typhusTsutsugamushi Triangle

Identifiers

PMID32244598
PMCPMC7344502

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