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ArticleCureus2024

Silent Entry: The Diagnostic Challenge of Tetanus Without an Obvious Wound.

Kajananan Sivagurunathan, Prashanthan Kaneshamoorthy, Anoja Mathievaanan, Nalayini Jegathesan, Peranantharajah Thampipillai

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Article in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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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.

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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

5 authors.

Kajananan SivagurunathanInternal Medicine, Teaching Hospital Jaffna, Jaffna, LKA.
Prashanthan KaneshamoorthyInternal Medicine, Teaching Hospital Jaffna, Jaffna, LKA.
Anoja MathievaananInternal Medicine, Teaching Hospital Jaffna, Jaffna, LKA.
Nalayini JegathesanInternal Medicine, Teaching Hospital Jaffna, Jaffna, LKA.
Peranantharajah ThampipillaiInternal Medicine, Teaching Hospital Jaffna, Jaffna, LKA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tetanus, caused by

Indexed as

clostridium tetanispatula testtetanustetanus immune globulinwoundless tetanus

Identifiers

PMID39539853
PMCPMC11558943

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