All That Coughs Is Not COVID-19: A Delayed Diagnosis of Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis Following Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection.

Joshua C Chen, Darren Wong, Sina Rabi, Scott Worswick, Brittney DeClerck, Jean Gibb

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Article in Open forum infectious diseases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

6citing papers in PubMed

1.7field-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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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Update on the Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Coccidioidomycosis.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
Review
Coccidioidomycosis and COVID-19 Infection. An Analysis from a Single Medical Center Within the Coccidioidal Endemic Area.Mycopathologia · 2022
Article
Current Landscape of Coccidioidomycosis.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
Review
Invasive Respiratory Fungal Infections in COVID-19 Critically Ill Patients.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
Review

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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Joshua C ChenDivision of Infectious Disease, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Darren WongDivision of Infectious Disease, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Sina RabiDepartment of Dermatology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Scott WorswickDepartment of Dermatology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Brittney DeClerckDepartment of Pathology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Jean GibbDivision of Infectious Disease, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2995-8776

University of Southern California · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

coccidiodomycosiscoinfectionCOVID-19SARS-CoV-2valley fever

Identifiers

PMID34258312

DOI10.1093/ofid/ofab246

PMCPMC8194553

OpenAlexW3161331304

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