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ArticleThe Journal of infection2021

Mucormycosis-A serious threat in the COVID-19 pandemic?

Lukasz Szarpak, Francesco Chirico, Michal Pruc, Luiza Szarpak, Tomasz Dzieciatkowski, Zubaid Rafique

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Article in The Journal of infection, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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19citing 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

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

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  3. Focusing COVID-19-associated mucormycosis: a major threat to immunocompromised COVID-19.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2023
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  12. COVID-19 associated mucormycosis (CAM) in India: a formidable challenge.The British journal of oral & maxillofacial surgery · 2021
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  17. The microbiota-related coinfections in COVID-19 patients: a real challenge.Beni-Suef University journal of basic and applied sciences · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Lukasz SzarpakInstitute of Outcomes Research, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Medical Academy, Warsaw, Poland; Maria Sklodowska-Curie Bialystok Oncology Center, Bialystok, Poland.
Francesco ChiricoPost-graduate School of Occupational Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy; Health Service Department, Italian State Police, Milan, Italy.
Michal PrucPolish Society of Disaster Medicine, Warsaw, Poland.
Luiza SzarpakPolish Society of Disaster Medicine, Warsaw, Poland; Polonia University, Czestochowa, Poland.
Tomasz DzieciatkowskiChair and Department of Medical Microbiology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
Zubaid RafiqueHenry JN Taub Department of Emergency Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19MucormycosisAntifungal AgentsHumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2Antifungal Agents

Identifiers

PMID34029629
PMCPMC8139429

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