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ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2020

Seroprevalence of

Rafael Fernandez-Botran, Irmgardt Alicia Wellmann, Clas Une, Ericka Méndez-Chacón, Elisa Hernández de Rodas, Bikash Bhandari, Carmen I Villagrán de Tercero

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Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Gastric cancer burden and regional disparities among Helicobacter pylori-positive patients in the Americas: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
    Pooled it
  2. High Seroprevalence ofGastroenterology research · 2025
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  3. Evaluation of Anti-Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  4. Associations between seroprevalence ofThe Journal of international medical research · 2021
    Article
  5. Article
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

7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Rafael Fernandez-Botran1Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky.
Irmgardt Alicia Wellmann2Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Clas Une3Instituto de Investigación en Salud (INISA), Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.
Ericka Méndez-Chacón3Instituto de Investigación en Salud (INISA), Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.
Elisa Hernández de Rodas2Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Bikash Bhandari4Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky.
Carmen I Villagrán de Tercero2Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
University of San Carlos of Guatemala · GTUniversidad de Costa Rica · CRUniversity of Louisville · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infection by

Indexed as

Antibodies, BacterialAntigens, BacterialBacterial ProteinsCase-Control StudiesEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayFemaleGuatemalaHelicobacter InfectionsHelicobacter pyloriHumansMaleMiddle AgedPepsinogen AReceptors, Urokinase Plasminogen ActivatorSeroepidemiologic StudiesStomach NeoplasmsAntibodies, BacterialAntigens, BacterialBacterial ProteinscagA protein, Helicobacter pyloriPepsinogen AReceptors, Urokinase Plasminogen Activator

Identifiers

PMID32314688
PMCPMC7356412
OpenAlexW3016337896

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.