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ArticleThe Journal of infectious diseases2017

Treatment-Associated Inflammatory Deterioration in Tuberculous Meningitis: Unpicking the Paradox.

Nguyen Thuy Thuong Thuong, Guy E Thwaites

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Article in The Journal of infectious diseases, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 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

13 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Trial
  2. Tuberculous Meningitis Across the Lifespan.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2025
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  5. The Neuro-Ophthalmology of Tuberculosis.Neuro-ophthalmology (Aeolus Press) · 2024
    Review
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  8. Paradoxical manifestations during tuberculous meningitis treatment among HIV-negative patients: a retrospective descriptive study and literature review.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Nguyen Thuy Thuong ThuongOxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Guy E ThwaitesOxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Funding

Wellcome Trust 206724/Z/17/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory SyndromeTuberculosis, MeningealHIVHumansInflammasomesInflammasomesinflammationIRISparadoxical reactionstuberculous meningitis

Identifiers

PMID27932621
PMCPMC5853525

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