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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2020

COVID-19 Lethality in Sub-Saharan Africa and Helminth Immune Modulation.

Luis Fonte, Armando Acosta, Maria E Sarmiento, María Ginori, Gissel García, Mohd Nor Norazmi

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-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

33 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Luis FonteDepartment of Parasitology, Institute of Tropical Medicine "Pedro Kourí", Havana, Cuba.
Armando AcostaSchool of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia.
Maria E SarmientoSchool of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia.
María GinoriDepartment of Teaching, Polyclinic "Plaza de la Revolución", Havana, Cuba.
Gissel GarcíaDepartment of Medical Genetic, Hospital "Hermanos Ameijeiras", Havana, Cuba.
Mohd Nor NorazmiSchool of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia.
Universiti Sains Malaysia · MYHermanos Ameijeiras Hospital · CUInstituto de Medicina Tropical “Pedro Kourí” · CU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CoinfectionCoronavirus InfectionsHelminthsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralAfrica South of the SaharaAnimalsBetacoronavirusCOVID-19HumansSARS-CoV-2COVID-19helminth immune modulationlethalitySARS CoV-2Sub-Saharan Africa

Identifiers

PMID33117371
PMCPMC7578247
OpenAlexW3091812682

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