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ArticleIDCases2022

Use of tafenoquine to treat a patient with relapsing babesiosis with clinical and molecular evidence of resistance to azithromycin and atovaquone.

Luis A Marcos, Annie Leung, Laura Kirkman, Gary P Wormser

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In one paragraph

Article in IDCases, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed
6.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

22 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Tafenoquine: A Breakthrough Option for Babesiosis Treatment.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2026
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  2. Human babesiosis: The past, present and future.Expert reviews in molecular medicine · 2025
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  3. A propidium iodide-basedAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2025
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  5. Tafenoquine for Relapsing Babesiosis: A Case Series.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2024
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  8. Comparative chemical genomics inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  16. Reduced Cholesterol Levels during Acute Human Babesiosis.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  18. Open forum infectious diseases · 2023
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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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Luis A MarcosDepartment of Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases) and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stony Brook University, USA.
Annie LeungDepartment of Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases) and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA.
Laura KirkmanDepartment of Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases) and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA.
Gary P WormserDivision of Infectious Diseases, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA.
Cornell University · USNew York Medical College · USStony Brook University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tafenoquine is a highly effective treatment for

Indexed as

Antibiotic resistanceBabesia microtiBabesiosisRituximabTafenoquine

Identifiers

PMID35242564
PMCPMC8885462
OpenAlexW4214609734

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Registered trials

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