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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2024

Body Louse Pathogen Surveillance among Persons Experiencing Homelessness, Canada, 2020-2021.

Carl Boodman, Leslie R Lindsay, Antonia Dibernardo, Kathy Kisil, Heather Coatsworth, Chris Huynh, Amila Heendeniya, John Schellenberg, Yoav Keynan

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
    Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Including louse-borneLancet regional health. Americas · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Carl Boodman
Leslie R Lindsay
Antonia Dibernardo
Kathy Kisil
Heather Coatsworth
Chris Huynh
Amila Heendeniya
John Schellenberg
Yoav Keynan

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We analyzed body lice collected from persons experiencing homelessness in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, during 2020-2021 to confirm vector species and ecotype and to identify louseborne pathogens. Of 556 lice analyzed from 7 persons, 17 louse pools (218 lice) from 1 person were positive for the louseborne bacterium Bartonella quintana.

Indexed as

Ill-Housed PersonsLice InfestationsPediculusAnimalsBartonella quintanaCanadaFemaleHumansMaleManitobabacteriaBartonellabody louseCanadaectoparasitosishomelessnessliceparasitespediculosisPediculus humanus humanustrench fevervector-borne infections

Identifiers

PMID38916637
PMCPMC11210640

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