ArticleJournal of tropical medicine2012
Childhood TB Surveillance: Bridging the Knowledge Gap to Inform Policy.
Article in Journal of tropical medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled 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.
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
19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Among Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2021Pooled it
- Incidence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis disease in children: systematic review and global estimates.Lancet (London, England) · 2014Pooled it
- Bedaquiline for multidrug-resistant TB in paediatric patients.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2021Trial
- Estimating childhood tuberculosis incidence and under-reporting in Gedeo Zone, Ethiopia: a Bayesian hidden Markov model.IJID regions · 2025Article
- Article
- Prevalence, Associated Risk Factors and Rifampicin Resistance Pattern of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Among Children at Debre Markos Referral Hospital, Northwest, Ethiopia.Infection and drug resistance · 2020Article
- Article
- Article
- Prospective Observational Study of Incidence and Preventable Burden of Childhood Tuberculosis, Kenya.Emerging infectious diseases · 2018Observational
- Accelerating access to quality TB care for pediatric TB cases through better diagnostic strategy in four major cities of India.PloS one · 2018Observational
- Article
- Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis among Children, China, 2006-2015.Emerging infectious diseases · 2017Article
- Deaths during tuberculosis treatment among paediatric patients in a large tertiary hospital in Nigeria.PloS one · 2017Article
- Childhood Tuberculosis in a Sub-Saharan Tertiary Facility: Epidemiology and Factors Associated with Treatment Outcome.PloS one · 2016Article
- Low case notification rates of childhood tuberculosis in southern Ethiopia.BMC pediatrics · 2015Article
- Trained community volunteers improve tuberculosis knowledge and attitudes among adults in a periurban community in southwest Nigeria.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2015Article
- Commentary: a targets framework: dismantling the invisibility trap for children with drug-resistant tuberculosis.Journal of public health policy · 2014Article
- Diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis and host RNA expression in Africa.The New England journal of medicine · 2014Article
- Non-neoplastic bulky mediastinal mass presentation in an adolescent patient: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2013Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
1 author at 1 institution in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of death globally. Natural history studies show that young children are at particularly high risk of progression to active TB and severe, disseminated disease following infection. Despite this, high-quality regional and global surveillance data on the burden of childhood TB are lacking. We discuss the unique aspects of TB in children that make diagnosis and therefore surveillance challenging; the limitations of available surveillance data; other data which provide insights into the true burden of childhood TB. Improved surveillance is among the key research priorities identified for childhood TB, but progress to date has been slow. Recent advances in TB diagnostics, and standardized clinical diagnostic guidelines and case definitions, all provide opportunities for new strategies to improve surveillance. Better-quality data on the burden and trends of childhood TB will inform and improve both public health policy and clinical practice.
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
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 OpenQuestion graph.