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ArticleVaccine2020

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine, antimalarial, age and gender relation to COVID-19 spread and mortality.

Ahmed Osama El-Gendy, Haitham Saeed, Ahmed M A Ali, Hossam M Zawbaa, Dina Gomaa, Hadeer S Harb, Yasmin M Madney, Hasnaa Osama, Mona A Abdelrahman, Mohamed E A Abdelrahim

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Article in Vaccine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 19 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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35citing papers in PubMed, 19 pooled it
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

35 citing papers in PubMed, 19 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

10 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ahmed Osama El-GendyMicrobiology and Immunology Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt.
Haitham SaeedClinical Pharmacy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt.
Ahmed M A AliPharmaceutics Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt; Pharmaceutics Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia.
Hossam M ZawbaaFaculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Beni-Suef University.
Dina GomaaEgyptian Drug authority, Cairo, Egypt; RAMEDA pharmaceuticals, Cairo, Egypt.
Hadeer S HarbClinical Pharmacy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt.
Yasmin M MadneyClinical Pharmacy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt.
Hasnaa OsamaClinical Pharmacy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt.
Mona A AbdelrahmanClinical Pharmacy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt.
Mohamed E A AbdelrahimClinical Pharmacy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt. Electronic address: mohamedemam9@yahoo.com.
Beni-Suef University · EGEgyptian Government · EG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COVID-19 is affecting different countries all over the world with great variation in infection rate and death ratio. Some reports suggested a relation between the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine and the malaria treatment to the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Some reports related infant's lower susceptibility to the COVID-19. Some other reports a higher risk in males compared to females in such COVID-19 pandemic. Also, some other reports claimed the possible use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as prophylactic in such a pandemic. The present commentary is to discuss the possible relation between those factors and SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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AgingChemopreventionSex CharacteristicsAntiviral AgentsBCG VaccineChloroquineCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Disease SusceptibilityFemaleGeographic MappingHumansHydroxychloroquineInfantInternationalityMaleAntiviral AgentsBCG VaccineChloroquineHydroxychloroquineAgeAntimalarialBCGCOVID 19Gender

Identifiers

PMID32654907
PMCPMC7332946
OpenAlexW3039122585

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