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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2018

HIV-Associated Mycobacterium tuberculosis Bloodstream Infection Is Underdiagnosed by Single Blood Culture.

David A Barr, Andrew D Kerkhoff, Charlotte Schutz, Amy M Ward, Gerry R Davies, Robert J Wilkinson, Graeme Meintjes

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.2field-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

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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

David A BarrWellcome Liverpool Glasgow Centre for Global Health Research, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom david.barr@liverpool.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-2922-9381
Andrew D KerkhoffDivision of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, USA.
Charlotte SchutzWellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-8329-6158
Amy M WardWellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Gerry R DaviesDepartment of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Robert J WilkinsonWellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Graeme MeintjesWellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
University of Cape Town · ZAUniversity of Liverpool · GBUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Cancer Research UK FC00110218Medical Research Council FC00110218Medical Research Council MC_U117588499Wellcome Trust 098316Wellcome Trust 104803Wellcome Trust 105165/Z/14/AWellcome Trust 203135Wellcome Trust FC00110218
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We assessed the additional diagnostic yield for

Indexed as

BacteremiaBlood CultureHIV InfectionsHumansMycobacterium tuberculosisProspective StudiesRetrospective StudiesSouth AfricaTuberculosisblood culturehuman immunodeficiency virusMycobacterium tuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID29444831
PMCPMC5925727
OpenAlexW2793528337

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Registered trials

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