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ReviewCurrent gastroenterology reports2016

Small Intestinal Infections.

Khushboo Munot, Donald P Kotler

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Review in Current gastroenterology reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing 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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Bio-protocol · 2018
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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.

Khushboo MunotDepartment of Medicine and Division of Gastroenterology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Health System, Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Mount Sinai West Hospitals, New York, NY, USA.
Donald P KotlerDepartment of Medicine and Division of Gastroenterology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Health System, Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Mount Sinai West Hospitals, New York, NY, USA. dkotler@chpnet.org.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Small intestinal infections are extremely common worldwide. They may be bacterial, viral, or parasitic in etiology. Most are foodborne or waterborne, with specific etiologies differing by region and with diverse pathophysiologies. Very young, very old, and immune-deficient individuals are the most vulnerable to morbidity or mortality from small intestinal infections. There have been significant advances in diagnostic sophistication with the development and early application of molecular diagnostic assays, though these tests have not become mainstream. The lack of rapid diagnoses combined with the self-limited nature of small intestinal infections has hampered the development of specific and effective treatments other than oral rehydration. Antibiotics are not indicated in the absence of an etiologic diagnosis, and not at all in the case of some infections.

Indexed as

Cross InfectionDiarrheaFoodborne DiseasesHumansImmunocompromised HostIntestinal DiseasesIntestine, SmallTravelWaterborne DiseasesDiarrheaDysenteryEpidemiologyFoodborne infectionsMolecular diagnosticsNosocomial infectionsTraveler’s diarrhea

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Registered trials

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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 Socratic graph.