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ArticleClinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2015

Editorial commentary: genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in China and missing links in the chain of ongoing transmission of tuberculosis.

Sandra M Arend, Dick van Soolingen

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Article in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Preventing the spread of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and protecting contacts of infectious cases.Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Sandra M ArendDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center.
Dick van SoolingenTuberculosis Reference Laboratory, National Institute for Public Health and Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven Departments of Pulmonary Diseases and Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, The Netherlands.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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FemaleHumansMaleMycobacterium tuberculosisTuberculosis, Multidrug-ResistantTuberculosis, PulmonaryUrban PopulationChinagenotypingtransmissiontuberculosisvariable number of tandem repeats

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PMID25829002

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