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ArticleHIV medicine2018

Poor specificity of urinary cryptococcal antigen testing: Reply to Drain et al. Prevalence of cryptococcal antigenuria at initial HIV diagnosis in KwaZulu-Natal.

M W Tenforde, N Longley, D B Meya, D R Boulware, G Meintjes, I Goercke, T S Harrison, J N Jarvis

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Article in HIV medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

M W TenfordeBotswana-UPenn Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana.
N LongleyCentre for Infection, St. George's University of London, London, UK.
D B MeyaDivision of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
D R BoulwareDivision of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
G MeintjesInstitute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine and Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
I GoerckeUniversity of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana.
T S HarrisonCentre for Infection, St. George's University of London, London, UK.
J N JarvisBotswana-UPenn Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana.

Funding

HOST DEFENSE TRAINING IN ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASEST32AI007044 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI DAVID Neal FREDRICKS · 1985 to 2026
$14.6M
NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007044Wellcome Trust 100714
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

HIV InfectionsAntigens, FungalCryptococcusHIVHumansPrevalenceSouth AfricaAntigens, Fungal

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PMID26347456
PMCPMC5816972

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