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ArticleAnnals of Saudi medicine

Molecular fingerprinting reveals familial transmission of rifampin-resistant tuberculosis in Kuwait.

Eiman Mokaddas, Suhail Ahmad, Adnan T Abal, Abdul S Al-Shami

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Article in Annals of Saudi medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Concordance of Drug-resistance Profiles Between Persons With Drug-resistant Tuberculosis and Their Household Contacts: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021
    Pooled it
  2. Yield of contact investigations in households of patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis: systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2014
    Pooled it
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  4. Key Issues in the Management of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis: A Case Report.Open access Macedonian journal of medical sciences · 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

4 authors.

Eiman MokaddasDepartment of Microbiology, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait.
Suhail Ahmad
Adnan T Abal
Abdul S Al-Shami

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

DNA FingerprintingAdultAntibiotics, AntitubercularAntitubercular AgentsDrug Resistance, MicrobialFemaleHumansKuwaitMaleMiddle AgedMycobacterium tuberculosisRifampinTuberculosisAntibiotics, AntitubercularAntitubercular AgentsRifampin

Identifiers

PMID15977695
PMCPMC6147960

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Registered trials

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