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ReviewMalaria journal2024

Emergence of Plasmodium falciparum strains with artemisinin partial resistance in East Africa and the Horn of Africa: is there a need to panic?

Ashenafi Assefa, Abebe A Fola, Geremew Tasew

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Review in Malaria journal, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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44citing papers in PubMed, 6 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

44 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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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

3 authors.

Ashenafi AssefaEthiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. ashyaega@yahoo.com.
Abebe A FolaCenter for Computational Molecular Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
Geremew TasewEthiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Funding

Epidemiology and determinants of emerging artemisinin-resistant malaria in EthiopiaR01AI177791 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Jonathan Boyd Parr · 2023 to 2026
$3.2M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI177791
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The emergence and spread of artemisinin partial resistance in East and Horn of Africa is alarming. However, artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) generally remains efficacious for the treatment of falciparum malaria. The emergence of partial artemisinin resistance does not currently meet the criteria to initiate change on treatment guidelines nor affect ACT routine procurement and distribution. It is high time for scientists and transitional researchers to be more critical and vigilant on further changes so that national programmes will be able to make informed decisions as well as remain alert and prepared for any change that may be required in the future.

Indexed as

AntimalarialsArtemisininsMalaria, FalciparumAfricaAfrica, EasternDrug ResistanceHumansPlasmodium falciparumAntimalarialsArtemisinins

Identifiers

PMID38273360
PMCPMC10809756

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