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ArticleTravel medicine and infectious disease

Apparent inefficacy of hydroxychloroquine combined with azithromycin on SARS-CoV-2 clearance in an incident cohort of geriatric patients with COVID-19.

Maria Mazzitelli, Chiara Davoli, Vincenzo Scaglione, Paolo Fusco, Valentina La Gamba, Giovanni Matera, Enrico Maria Trecarichi, Carlo Torti

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Article in Travel medicine and infectious disease. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 35% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Maria MazzitelliInfectious and Tropical Disease Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy. Electronic address: m.mazzitelli88@gmail.com.
Chiara DavoliInfectious and Tropical Disease Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy.
Vincenzo ScaglioneInfectious and Tropical Disease Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy.
Paolo FuscoInfectious and Tropical Disease Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy.
Valentina La GambaInfectious and Tropical Disease Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy.
Giovanni MateraClinical Microbiology Unit, Department of Health Sciences, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy.
Enrico Maria TrecarichiInfectious and Tropical Disease Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy.
Carlo TortiInfectious and Tropical Disease Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy.
Magna Graecia University · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSevere acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirusAgedAzithromycinBetacoronavirusCOVID-19COVID-19 Drug TreatmentHumansHydroxychloroquineSARS-CoV-2AzithromycinHydroxychloroquine

Identifiers

PMID32739472
PMCPMC7392844
OpenAlexW3045722087

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Registered trials

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