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ArticleTravel medicine and infectious disease

Risk of Strongyloides Hyperinfection Syndrome when prescribing dexamethasone in severe COVID-19.

Angus De Wilton, Laura E Nabarro, Gauri S Godbole, Peter L Chiodini, Aileen Boyd, Katherine Woods

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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 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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20citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Angus De WiltonHospital for Tropical Diseases, University College Hospitals London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: angus.dewilton@nhs.net.
Laura E NabarroHospital for Tropical Diseases, University College Hospitals London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: laura.nabarro@nhs.net.
Gauri S GodboleHospital for Tropical Diseases, University College Hospitals London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: gauri.godbole@nhs.net.
Peter L ChiodiniHospital for Tropical Diseases, University College Hospitals London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: p.chiodini@nhs.net.
Aileen BoydHomerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: aileen.boyd@nhs.net.
Katherine WoodsHomerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: katherine.woods3@nhs.net.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19 Drug TreatmentStrongyloides stercoralisStrongyloidiasisAnimalsDexamethasoneHumansSARS-CoV-2SteroidsDexamethasoneSteroids

Identifiers

PMID33535106
PMCPMC7847532

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