Consent and criminalisation concerns over phylogenetic analysis of surveillance data - Authors' reply.

Joel O Wertheim, Sheldon Morris, Manon Ragonnet-Cronin

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

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6citing papers in PubMed

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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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

What to consider when developing a new molecular HIV surveillance tool: Perspectives of key stakeholders working in HIV prevention and treatment.Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics · 2025
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Action needed to address molecular HIV surveillance ethical concerns.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2025
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Beyond HIV outbreaks: protocol, rationale and implementation of a prospective study quantifying the benefit of incorporating viral sequence clustering analysis into routine public health interventions.BMJ open · 2022
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Heterosexual Cisgender Men Partnered with Transgender Women Exhibit Higher HIV/STI Sexual Risk than Their Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Counterparts: Findings from a U.S.-Based Convenience Sample Recruited Online.AIDS and behavior · 2021
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What Should Health Departments Do with HIV Sequence Data?Viruses · 2020
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Informed Consent in Molecular HIV Epidemiology: A Rapid Review of the Literature to Identify Concerns and Recommendations.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Joel O WertheimDepartment of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA. Electronic address: jwertheim@ucsd.edu.

Sheldon MorrisDepartment of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.

Manon Ragonnet-CroninDepartment of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA; MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, UK.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/R015600/1

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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HIV InfectionsTransgender PersonsFemaleHumansInformed ConsentLos AngelesMalePhylogeny

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PMID31272659

DOI10.1016/S2352-3018(19)30142-0

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