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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2017

Malnutrition: Modulator of Immune Responses in Tuberculosis.

Padmapriyadarsini Chandrasekaran, Natarajan Saravanan, Ramalingam Bethunaickan, Srikanth Tripathy

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
68citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
6.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

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

68 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 125 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Wasting phenotype for differentiating spinal tuberculosis from spinal pyogenic infection.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026
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  9. Impact of Social Determinants of Health on the Incidence of Tuberculosis in Central Asia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026
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  15. Impact of premorbid nutritional status on TB severity.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2025
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8 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Padmapriyadarsini ChandrasekaranDepartment of Clinical Research, National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India.
Natarajan SaravananDepartment of Biochemistry and Clinical Pharmacology, National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India.
Ramalingam BethunaickanDepartment of Immunology, National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India.
Srikanth TripathyNational Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India.
National Institute of Research in Tuberculosis · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nutrition plays a major role in the management of both acute and chronic diseases, in terms of body's response to the pathogenic organism. An array of nutrients like macro- and micro-nutrients, vitamins, etc., are associated with boosting the host's immune responses against intracellular pathogens including

Indexed as

food supplementation for tuberculosismalnutrition and tuberculosisMycobacterium tuberculosisnutrition and immunity of tuberculosissphingolipidvitamin D

Identifiers

PMID29093710
PMCPMC5651251
OpenAlexW2766672489

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