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ArticleTherapeutic advances in infectious disease

COVID-19 associated mucormycosis: the urgent need to reconsider the indiscriminate use of immunosuppressive drugs.

Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales, Ranjit Sah, Jose Millan-Oñate, Angel Gonzalez, Juan J Montenegro-Idrogo, Sias Scherger, Carlos Franco-Paredes, Andrés F Henao-Martínez

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Article in Therapeutic advances in infectious disease. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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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

30 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Craniofacial Involvement of Mucormycosis: A Single-Center Experience of 57 Cases From Shiraz, Iran.The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2025
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  4. Outcome of Total Surgical Debridement of Covid Associated Rhino-Orbito-Cerebral Mucormycosis Based on a New Surgical Staging System: A Cohort Study.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2024
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  14. Resurgence of mucormycosis during COVID-19 pandemic.Oral and maxillofacial surgery cases · 2022
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  19. Mucormycosis and COVID-19 pandemic: Clinical and diagnostic approach.Journal of infection and public health · 2022
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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

8 authors.

Alfonso J Rodriguez-MoralesGrupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Belmonte, Pereira, Risaralda 660003, Colombia. Associate Editor, Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9773-2192
Ranjit SahTribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Jose Millan-OñateAdult Infectious Diseases, Clínica Imbanaco QuirónSalud, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia.
Angel GonzalezBasic and Applied Microbiology Research Group (MICROBA), School of Microbiology, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia.
Juan J Montenegro-IdrogoClinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru.
Sias SchergerDivision of Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.
Carlos Franco-ParedesDivision of Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8757-643X
Andrés F Henao-MartínezDivision of Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7363-8652

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID34211710
PMCPMC8216396

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