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ArticleCureus2024

Japan's Growing Public Health Crisis: Tackling the Alarming Increase in Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome.

Harendra Kumar, Arkadeep Dhali, Gopal Krishna Dhali

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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 2 papers.

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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

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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Tracing the recent evolution of Group AEmerging microbes & infections · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Harendra KumarGeneral Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, PAK.
Arkadeep DhaliInternal Medicine, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust, Sheffield, GBR.
Gopal Krishna DhaliGastroenterology, School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, IND.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Japan is experiencing a dramatic spike in streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) cases, exceeding the previous year's statistics. This life-threatening illness, caused by

Indexed as

group a streptococcus pyogenesjapan stss outbreak 2024outcomepublic health and safetystreptococcal toxic shock syndrome

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PMID39822473
PMCPMC11737603

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