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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2009

Susceptibility of Mycobacterium bovis BCG vaccine strains to antituberculous antibiotics.

Nicole Ritz, Marc Tebruegge, Tom G Connell, Aina Sievers, Roy Robins-Browne, Nigel Curtis

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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46citing 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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Treating BCG-induced disease in children.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013
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  3. Early antiretroviral treatment reduces risk of bacille Calmette-Guérin immune reconstitution adenitis.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2011
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  14. 100 years of Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guérin.The Lancet. Infectious diseases · 2022
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  17. Accurate Identification of Closely RelatedFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021
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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

6 authors.

Nicole RitzDepartment of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.
Marc Tebruegge
Tom G Connell
Aina Sievers
Roy Robins-Browne
Nigel Curtis

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mycobacterium bovis BCG is one of the most commonly administered vaccines. Complications, including disseminated BCG disease, are rare but increasingly reported in immunodeficient children. There is growing recognition of the importance of differences between BCG vaccine strains. We determined the susceptibilities of five genetically distinct BCG vaccine strains to 12 antituberculous drugs.

Indexed as

Antitubercular AgentsBCG VaccineMicrobial Sensitivity TestsMycobacterium bovisAntitubercular AgentsBCG Vaccine

Identifiers

PMID18955515
PMCPMC2612166

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