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ArticlePathogens and global health2021

Community engagement to control dengue and other vector-borne diseases in Alappuzha municipality, Kerala, India.

Retheesh Babu Gopalan, Bontha Veerraju Babu, Attayoor Purushothaman Sugunan, Anju Murali, Mohammed Shafi Ma, Rathinam Balasubramanian, Sairu Philip

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Article in Pathogens and global health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 16% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Retheesh Babu GopalanICMR-National Institute of Virology, Kerala Unit, Alappuzha, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6484-0688
Bontha Veerraju BabuDivision of Socio-Behavioural & Health Systems Research, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5096-2222
Attayoor Purushothaman SugunanICMR-National Institute of Virology, Kerala Unit, Alappuzha, India.
Anju MuraliICMR-National Institute of Virology, Kerala Unit, Alappuzha, India.
Mohammed Shafi MaICMR-National Institute of Virology, Kerala Unit, Alappuzha, India.
Rathinam BalasubramanianICMR-National Institute of Virology, Kerala Unit, Alappuzha, India.
Sairu PhilipTD Medical College, Alappuzha, India.
ICMR-National Institute of Virology · INIndian Council of Medical Research · INT. D. Medical College · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AedesDengueVector Borne DiseasesAnimalsDisease VectorsEntomologyHumansMosquito ControlCommunity engagementcommunity participationformative researchinterventionpreventionvector-borne diseasesvector control

Identifiers

PMID33734036
PMCPMC8168773
OpenAlexW3136104297

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Registered trials

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