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ReviewLancet regional health. Americas2024

The epidemiology of Chagas disease in the Americas.

Zulma M Cucunubá, Sebastián A Gutiérrez-Romero, Juan-David Ramírez, Natalia Velásquez-Ortiz, Soledad Ceccarelli, Gabriel Parra-Henao, Andrés F Henao-Martínez, Jorge Rabinovich, María-Gloria Basáñez, Pierre Nouvellet and 1 more

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Review in Lancet regional health. Americas, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 89 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
89citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

89 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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29 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

11 authors.

Zulma M CucunubáDepartamento de Epidemiología Clínica y Bioestadística, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
Sebastián A Gutiérrez-RomeroDepartamento de Epidemiología Clínica y Bioestadística, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
Juan-David RamírezCentro de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Biotecnología de la Universidad del Rosario (CIMBIUR), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.
Natalia Velásquez-OrtizCentro de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Biotecnología de la Universidad del Rosario (CIMBIUR), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.
Soledad CeccarelliCentro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores (CEPAVE), Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina.
Gabriel Parra-HenaoCentro de Investigación en Salud para el Trópico, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Santa Marta, Colombia.
Andrés F Henao-MartínezDivision of Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, USA.
Jorge RabinovichCentro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores (CEPAVE), Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina.
María-Gloria BasáñezDepartment of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis and London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Pierre NouvelletSchool of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK.
Fernando Abad-FranchInstituto Leônidas e Maria Deane - Fiocruz Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/R015600/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chagas disease is a complex parasitic zoonosis that still threatens public health across the Americas. Initiatives to control

Indexed as

Chagas diseaseControlDisease burdenTransmissionTrypanosoma cruzi

Identifiers

PMID39474465
PMCPMC11519694

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