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ArticleVirulence2017

Early diagnosis and effective treatment regimens are the keys to tackle antimicrobial resistance in tuberculosis (TB): A report from Euroscicon's international TB Summit 2016.

Arundhati Maitra, Tengku Karmila Kamil, Monisha Shaik, Cynthia Amaning Danquah, Alina Chrzastek, Sanjib Bhakta

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Article in Virulence, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
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

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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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Arundhati Maitraa Mycobacteria Research Laboratory, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology , Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London , London , UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0367-6084
Tengku Karmila Kamila Mycobacteria Research Laboratory, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology , Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London , London , UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3465-7639
Monisha Shaika Mycobacteria Research Laboratory, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology , Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London , London , UK.
Cynthia Amaning Danquaha Mycobacteria Research Laboratory, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology , Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London , London , UK.
Alina Chrzasteka Mycobacteria Research Laboratory, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology , Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London , London , UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1419-0311
Sanjib Bhaktaa Mycobacteria Research Laboratory, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology , Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London , London , UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1165-9295
Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council G0801956Medical Research Council G0802079Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To say that tuberculosis (TB) has regained a strong foothold in the global human health and wellbeing scenario would be an understatement. Ranking alongside HIV/AIDS as the top reason for mortality due to a single infectious disease, the impact of TB extends far into socio-economic context worldwide. As global efforts led by experts and political bodies converge to mitigate the predicted outcome of growing antimicrobial resistance, the academic community of students, practitioners and researchers have mobilised to develop integrated, inter-disciplinary programmes to bring the plans of the former to fruition. Enabling this crucial requirement for unimpeded dissemination of scientific discovery was the TB Summit 2016, held in London, United Kingdom. This report critically discusses the recent breakthroughs made in diagnostics and treatment while bringing to light the major hurdles in the control of the disease as discussed in the course of the 3-day international event. Conferences and symposia such as these are the breeding grounds for successful local and global collaborations and therefore must be supported to expand the understanding and outreach of basic science research.

Indexed as

Early DiagnosisAntitubercular AgentsDrug DiscoveryDrug Resistance, Multiple, BacterialGlobal HealthHumansMycobacterium tuberculosisTreatment OutcomeTuberculosisTuberculosis, Multidrug-ResistantAntitubercular Agentsantibioticsdrug-discoverydrug-resistancedrug-susceptibility testingtuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID27813702
PMCPMC5626228
OpenAlexW2547356982

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