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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2018

Depressed Gamma Interferon Responses and Treatment Outcomes in Tuberculosis Patients: a Prospective Cohort Study.

Jia-Yih Feng, Sheng-Wei Pan, Shiang-Fen Huang, Ying-Ying Chen, Yung-Yang Lin, Wei-Juin Su

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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 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 28% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Two-HitFrontiers in immunology · 2019
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  2. Future Prospects for Using Clinical Phenotypes in Tuberculosis Precision Medicine-An Approach for Clinical Management.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2026
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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

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jia-Yih FengDepartment of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Sheng-Wei PanDepartment of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Shiang-Fen HuangDivision of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Ying-Ying ChenDepartment of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Yung-Yang LinInstitute of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Wei-Juin SuDepartment of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan wjsu@vghtpe.gov.tw.
Taipei Veterans General Hospital · TWNational Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · TWNational Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · TW

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunosuppression induced by

Indexed as

AdultAgedAged, 80 and overAntigens, BacterialAntitubercular AgentsFemaleHumansInterferon-gammaInterferon-gamma Release TestsLymphocyte CountMaleMiddle AgedMitogensMycobacterium tuberculosisProspective StudiesTreatment OutcomeAntigens, BacterialAntitubercular AgentsIFNG protein, humanInterferon-gammaMitogensIGRAinterferon-γmortalitysputum conversiontuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID30068533
PMCPMC6156303
OpenAlexW2884781862

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Registered trials

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