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ArticleCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne2021

Fatal respiratory diphtheria in a visitor to Canada.

Scott Cholewa, Fareen Karachiwalla, Sarah E Wilson, Jeya Nadarajah, Julianne V Kus

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Article in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Isolation of toxigenicCanada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2026
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  3. Describing the burden of diphtheria in Canada from 2006 to 2017, using hospital administrative data and reportable disease data.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2021
    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

5 authors.

Scott CholewaPublic Health Branch (Cholewa, Karachiwalla), Regional Municipality of York, Newmarket, Ont.; Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Karachiwalla, Wilson), and Faculty of Medicine (Nadarajah), and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (Kus), University of Toronto; Public Health Ontario (Wilson, Kus), Toronto, Ont.; Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine (Karachiwalla), Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Studies, (Wilson), Toronto, Ont. scott.cholewa@york.ca.
Fareen KarachiwallaPublic Health Branch (Cholewa, Karachiwalla), Regional Municipality of York, Newmarket, Ont.; Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Karachiwalla, Wilson), and Faculty of Medicine (Nadarajah), and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (Kus), University of Toronto; Public Health Ontario (Wilson, Kus), Toronto, Ont.; Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine (Karachiwalla), Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Studies, (Wilson), Toronto, Ont.
Sarah E WilsonPublic Health Branch (Cholewa, Karachiwalla), Regional Municipality of York, Newmarket, Ont.; Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Karachiwalla, Wilson), and Faculty of Medicine (Nadarajah), and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (Kus), University of Toronto; Public Health Ontario (Wilson, Kus), Toronto, Ont.; Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine (Karachiwalla), Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Studies, (Wilson), Toronto, Ont.
Jeya NadarajahPublic Health Branch (Cholewa, Karachiwalla), Regional Municipality of York, Newmarket, Ont.; Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Karachiwalla, Wilson), and Faculty of Medicine (Nadarajah), and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (Kus), University of Toronto; Public Health Ontario (Wilson, Kus), Toronto, Ont.; Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine (Karachiwalla), Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Studies, (Wilson), Toronto, Ont.
Julianne V KusPublic Health Branch (Cholewa, Karachiwalla), Regional Municipality of York, Newmarket, Ont.; Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Karachiwalla, Wilson), and Faculty of Medicine (Nadarajah), and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (Kus), University of Toronto; Public Health Ontario (Wilson, Kus), Toronto, Ont.; Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine (Karachiwalla), Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Studies, (Wilson), Toronto, Ont.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AgedCanadaCorynebacterium diphtheriaeCoughDiphtheriaEmergency Service, HospitalFatal OutcomeHumansIndiaMaleTravel

Identifiers

PMID33397635
PMCPMC7774478

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