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ReviewClinical microbiology reviews2025

Current perspectives in the epidemiology and control of lymphatic filariasis.

Dziedzom K de Souza, Moses J Bockarie

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Review in Clinical microbiology reviews, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing 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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Microfilaria: A Microscopic Baby Dance.Clinical case reports · 2026
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  3. Article
  4. Review
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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

2 authors.

Dziedzom K de SouzaDepartment of Parasitology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.ORCID 0000-0001-5000-6177
Moses J BockarieCollege of Medical Sciences, Njala University, Bo, Sierra Leone.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

SUMMARYLymphatic filariasis (LF), a debilitating tropical disease caused by parasitic filarial worms,

Indexed as

Elephantiasis, FilarialAnimalsFilaricidesGlobal HealthHumansFilaricideselephantiasislymphatic filariasisWuchereria bancrofti

Identifiers

PMID40172233
PMCPMC12160566

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