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ArticleViruses2020

Hepatitis C Virus Affects Tuberculosis-Specific T Cells in HIV-Negative Patients.

Mohamed Ahmed El-Mokhtar, Sherein G Elgendy, Abeer Sharaf Eldin, Elham Ahmed Hassan, Ali Abdel Azeem Hasan, Muhamad R Abdel Hameed, Douaa Sayed, Eman H Salama

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Article in Viruses, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Association of Treated and Untreated Chronic Hepatitis C With the Incidence of Active Tuberculosis Disease: A Population-Based Cohort Study.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Mohamed Ahmed El-MokhtarDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut 71515, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0003-1943-8419
Sherein G ElgendyDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut 71515, Egypt.
Abeer Sharaf EldinDepartment of Tropical Medicine and Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut 71515, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0002-7549-3394
Elham Ahmed HassanDepartment of Tropical Medicine and Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut 71515, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0003-2575-758X
Ali Abdel Azeem HasanDepartment of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut 71515, Egypt.
Muhamad R Abdel HameedInternal Medicine and Hematology Unit, Assiut University Hospitals, Assiut University, Assiut 71515, Egypt.
Douaa SayedDepartment of Clinical Pathology, South Egypt Cancer Institute, Assiut University, Assiut 71515, Egypt.
Eman H SalamaDepartment of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Sohag 82524, Egypt.
Assiut University · EGAssiut University Hospitals · EGSohag University · EG

Funding

Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University 054/12/2015
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The occurrence of tuberculosis (TB) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections in the same patient presents a unique clinical challenge. The impact of HCV infection on the immune response to TB remains poorly investigated in TB

Indexed as

Immunity, CellularAdultAgedAntitubercular AgentsCD4 Lymphocyte CountCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCoinfectionDisease ProgressionFemaleHepacivirusHepatitis CHIV InfectionsHumansInterleukin-10Lymphocyte ActivationMaleAntitubercular AgentsIL10 protein, humanInterleukin-10hepatitis C virusIL-10TB/HCV coinfectionT cellstuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID31952232
PMCPMC7019953
OpenAlexW2998864937

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