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ArticleThe international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease2018

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Renata Guise Azevedo, Fernanda Suyama Dinallo, Laryssa Sanches de Laurentis, David R Boulware, José Ernesto Vidal

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Article in The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
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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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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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

5 authors.

Renata Guise AzevedoInstituto de Infectologia Emilio Ribas, São Paulo SP, Brazil.
Fernanda Suyama DinalloInstituto de Infectologia Emilio Ribas, São Paulo SP, Brazil.
Laryssa Sanches de LaurentisInstituto de Infectologia Emilio Ribas, São Paulo SP, Brazil.
David R BoulwareUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN, USA.
José Ernesto VidalInstituto de Infectologia Emilio Ribas, São Paulo SP, Brazil, Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Medicina Tropical São Paulo SP, Brazil <email></email>, Email: josevibe@gmail.com.

Funding

Improving Diagnostics and Neurocognitive Outcomes in HIV/AIDS-related MeningitisR01NS086312 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI David R Boulware, David Bisagaya Meya · 2013 to 2026
$8.3M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS086312
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AdultBrazilHIV InfectionsHumansReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionRetrospective StudiesSensitivity and SpecificityTuberculosis, Meningeal

Identifiers

PMID29862958
PMCPMC6335103

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