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ArticleThe Lancet. Microbe2023

Real-life implications of prevalence meta-analyses? Doi plots and prediction intervals are the answer.

Muhammad Aaqib Shamim

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Article in The Lancet. Microbe, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 19 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 19 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Global prevalence of fluoroquinolone resistance inFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026
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  11. Pooled prevalence of Escherichia coli phenotypic and genotypic antimicrobial resistance profiles in poultry: systematic review and meta-analysis.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Muhammad Aaqib ShamimDepartment of Pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur 342005, India. Electronic address: aaqibsh@gmail.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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