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SynthesisBulletin of the World Health Organization2020

Prevalence of

Rebecca Thomson, Jonathan B Parr, Qin Cheng, Stella Chenet, Mark Perkins, Jane Cunningham

Abstract readSystematic Review
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Synthesis in Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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38citing 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

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

  1. A Dual, Systematic Approach to Malaria Diagnostic Biomarker Discovery.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2022
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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

6 authors.

Rebecca ThomsonLondon, England.
Jonathan B ParrDivision of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States of America.
Qin ChengAustralian Defence Force Malaria and Infectious Disease Institute, Queensland, Australia.
Stella ChenetInstituto de Enfermedades Tropicales, Universidad Nacional Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza de Amazonas, Chachapoyas, Peru.
Mark PerkinsDepartment of Emergency Preparedness, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Jane CunninghamGlobal Malaria Programme, World Health Organization, avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo calculate prevalence estimates and evaluate the quality of studies reporting

methodsWe searched five online databases, without language restriction, for articles reporting original data on

findingsA total of 38 articles reporting 55 studies from 32 countries and one territory worldwide were included in the review. We found considerable heterogeneity in the populations studied, methods used and estimated prevalence of

conclusionThe lack of representative surveys or consistency in study design impairs evaluations of the risk of false-negative results in malaria diagnosis due to

Indexed as

Antigens, ProtozoanHistidine-Rich GlycoproteinHumansMalaria, FalciparumPlasmodium falciparumPolymerase Chain ReactionPrevalenceProteinsProtozoan ProteinsAntigens, ProtozoanHistidine-Rich GlycoproteinHRP-2 antigen, Plasmodium falciparumHRP3 protein, Plasmodium falciparumProteinsProtozoan Proteins

Identifiers

PMID32773901
PMCPMC7411324

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