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. 2022 Jul 12;21:217. doi: 10.1186/s12936-022-04237-z

Fig. 7.

Fig. 7

The contour-enhanced funnel plot revealed that the mean differences of IL-4 levels between severe and uncomplicated malaria patients were concentrated in a statistically significant area (P < 1%, 0.01), indicating that the asymmetry in the funnel plot was caused by publication bias rather than other factors