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ArticleSouthern African journal of HIV medicine2019

An unusual case of abdominal mycobacterial infection: Case report and literature review.

Pieter Ekermans, Rene de Gama, Celeste Kock, Ebrahim Hoosien, Tomas Slavik, Terry Marshall, Craig Corcoran, Jakko van Ingen

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Article in Southern African journal of HIV medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Pieter EkermansDepartment of Microbiology, National Reference Laboratory, AMPATH Laboratories, Centurion, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1472-503X
Rene de GamaDepartment of Paediatrics, Netcare Unitas Hospital, Centurion, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3946-899X
Celeste KockDepartment of Paediatrics, Mediclinic Midstream Hospital, Midstream, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6635-4678
Ebrahim HoosienDepartment of Microbiology, National Reference Laboratory, AMPATH Laboratories, Centurion, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6042-8154
Tomas SlavikDepartment of Histology, AMPATH Laboratories, Pretoria, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0575-0196
Terry MarshallDepartment of Molecular Medicine, National Reference Laboratory, AMPATH Laboratories, Centurion, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0591-2610
Craig CorcoranDepartment of Molecular Medicine, National Reference Laboratory, AMPATH Laboratories, Centurion, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8493-9810
Jakko van IngenDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0581-2003

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article presents a case of an HIV-infected paediatric patient with an unusual

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16S rRNA sequence analysisFastidiousLine-probe assayMycobacterium genavenseNon-tuberculous mycobacteriumRetractile mesenteritis

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PMID31534791
PMCPMC6739527

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