Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40110254›Full record

ReviewAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2025

Unraveling the resurgence of syphilis: a deep dive into the epidemic sweeping across the United States; a mini review.

Zainab Fatima, Bilal Ahmad, Muhammad Abdullah, Mahammed Khan Suheb, Farheen Naaz, Aymar Akilimali

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Annals of medicine and surgery (2012), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
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

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

  1. Neurosyphilis presenting as ocular motor nerve palsy: two cases and a systematic literature review.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026
    Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Review
  5. Article
  6. Review
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
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

6 authors.

Zainab FatimaDepartment of Public Health and Community Medicine, Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Medical and Dental College, Lahore, Pakistan.
Bilal AhmadDepartment of Public Health and Community Medicine, Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Medical and Dental College, Lahore, Pakistan.
Muhammad AbdullahDepartment of Public Health and Community Medicine, Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Medical and Dental College, Lahore, Pakistan.
Mahammed Khan SuhebDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Wisconsin, USA.
Farheen NaazDepartment of Medicine, Medical College, Deccan College of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, India.
Aymar AkilimaliDepartment of Research, Medical Research Circle (MedReC), Goma, DR Congo.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Syphilis, a resurging public health concern in the United States, has witnessed a staggering rise in cases over the past decade. This highly contagious sexually transmitted infection caused by

Indexed as

congenital syphilisprevention and control effortspublic healthsexually transmitted infectionsyphilis

Identifiers

PMID40110254
PMCPMC11918761

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-SA
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.