Correction to: Whole genome sequencing Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from sputum identifies more genetic diversity than sequencing from culture.

Camus Nimmo, Liam P Shaw, Ronan Doyle, Rachel Williams, Kayleen Brien, Carrie Burgess, Judith Breuer, Francois Balloux, Alexander S Pym

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Article in BMC genomics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

6citing papers in PubMed

–field-weighted citation impact

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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

Pervasive genome structure heterogeneity iniScience · 2026
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Within-host bacterial evolution and the emergence of pathogenicity.Nature microbiology · 2025
Review
Assessment and validation of enrichment and target capture approaches to improveJournal of clinical microbiology · 2023
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Genomic markers of drug resistance inJournal of clinical microbiology · 2023
Article
Microevolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Subpopulations and Heteroresistance in a Patient Receiving 27 Years of Tuberculosis Treatment in Germany.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2021
Article
Direct transmission of within-host Mycobacterium tuberculosis diversity to secondary cases can lead to variable between-host heterogeneity without de novo mutation: A genomic investigation.EBioMedicine · 2019
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Erratum for
Whole genome sequencing Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from sputum identifies more genetic diversity than sequencing from culture.2019

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Camus NimmoDivision of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK. c.nimmo.04@cantab.net.ORCID 0000-0001-7355-4651

Liam P ShawUCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.

Ronan DoyleDivision of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.

Rachel WilliamsDivision of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.

Kayleen BrienAfrica Health Research Institute, Durban, South Africa.

Carrie BurgessDivision of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.

Judith BreuerDivision of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.

Francois BallouxUCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.

Alexander S PymAfrica Health Research Institute, Durban, South Africa.

Funding

Wellcome Trust 203583/Z/16/Z

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

He authors reported that one of the authors' names was typeset incorrectly in the authorship list.

Identifiers

PMID31142261

DOI10.1186/s12864-019-5841-8

PMCPMC6540368

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