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Trial reportThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2017

Effectiveness of Short-Course Meglumine Antimoniate (Glucantime®) for Treatment of Visceral Leishmaniasis: A 13-Year, Multistage, Non-Inferiority Study in Iran.

Abdolvahab Alborzi, Gholamreza Pouladfar, Armin Attar, Fatemeh Falahi, Zahra Jafarpour, Abdollah Karimi, Mohammad Rahim Kadivar

Open access · bronzeAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
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, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Abdolvahab AlborziProfessor Alborzi Clinical Microbiology Research Center, Department of Paediatrics, Nemazee Teaching Hospital, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Gholamreza PouladfarProfessor Alborzi Clinical Microbiology Research Center, Department of Paediatrics, Nemazee Teaching Hospital, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. pouladfar_ghr@hotmail.com attarar@sums.ac.ir.
Armin AttarCardiovascular Research Center, TAHA Clinical Trial Group, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. pouladfar_ghr@hotmail.com attarar@sums.ac.ir.
Fatemeh FalahiStudent Research Committee, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Iran.
Zahra JafarpourProfessor Alborzi Clinical Microbiology Research Center, Department of Paediatrics, Nemazee Teaching Hospital, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Abdollah KarimiPediatric Infectious Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Mohammad Rahim KadivarProfessor Alborzi Clinical Microbiology Research Center, Department of Paediatrics, Nemazee Teaching Hospital, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences · IRFasa University of Medical Sciences · IRShahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The World Health Organization's (WHO) recommendation is 28-day course of meglumine antimoniate (Glucantime

Indexed as

Child, PreschoolCohort StudiesDrug Administration ScheduleHumansIranLeishmaniasis, VisceralMeglumineMeglumine AntimoniateOrganometallic CompoundsPilot ProjectsRetrospective StudiesMeglumineMeglumine AntimoniateOrganometallic Compounds

Identifiers

PMID27879460
PMCPMC5239690
OpenAlexW2550266174

What Socratic holds

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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.