Key issues in the diagnosis and management of tuberculosis.

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.

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.

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. The meta-analysis for ideal cytokines to distinguish the latent and active TB infection.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2020
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2. SeeTB: A novel alternative to sputum smear microscopy to diagnose tuberculosis in high burden countries.Scientific reports · 2019
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3. Mycobacterium tuberculosis.Journal of immunology research · 2015
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4. Risk factors for tuberculosis in older children and adolescents: a matched case-control study in Recife, Brazil.Emerging themes in epidemiology · 2014
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5. Missing red flags in back pain--tuberculosis of the spine: an important differential for back pain in non-endemic countries.BMJ case reports · 2013
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6. Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific TNF-α is a potential biomarker for the rapid diagnosis of active tuberculosis disease in Chinese population.PloS one · 2013
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7. Distinguishing Latent from Active Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection Using Elispot Assays: Looking Beyond Interferon-gamma.Cells · 2012
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8. Microbiological diagnosis of spinal tuberculosis.International orthopaedics · 2012
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9. Evaluation of an enzyme-linked immunospot assay for the immunodiagnosis of atypical spinal tuberculosis (atypical clinical presentation/atypical radiographic presentation) in China.The Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
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