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Antibody-Secreting Cells To Diagnose Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in Children in Pakistan.

Najeeha Talat Iqbal, Kumail Ahmed, Farah N Qamar, Fariha Shaheen, Aisha Mehnaz, Fehmina Arif, Amna Afzal Saeed, Aneeq Muhammad Yousuf, Syeda Fatima Raza, Shazia Sultana and 4 more

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Article in mSphere, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 50% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Najeeha Talat IqbalDepartment of Paediatrics, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan najeeha.iqbal@aku.edu.
Kumail AhmedDepartment of Paediatrics, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Farah N QamarDepartment of Paediatrics, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Fariha ShaheenDepartment of Paediatrics, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Aisha MehnazPaediatric Ward I, Civil Hospital Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan.
Fehmina ArifPaediatric Ward I, Civil Hospital Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan.
Amna Afzal SaeedSchool of Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Aneeq Muhammad YousufSchool of Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Syeda Fatima RazaSchool of Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Shazia SultanaDepartment of Paediatrics, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Shahida Mumtaz QureshiDepartment of Paediatrics, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Shakil Ahmad SiddiqiSindh Government Hospital Korangi, Karachi, Pakistan.
Eric HouptDivision of Infectious Diseases and International Health, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
Tania ThomasDivision of Infectious Diseases and International Health, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
Aga Khan University · PKCivil Hospital Karachi · PKUniversity of Virginia · USGovernment of Pakistan · PK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reliance on microbiologic methods to diagnose

Indexed as

Antibodies, BacterialAntibody-Producing CellsBiomarkersChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansLinear ModelsMaleMycobacterium tuberculosisPakistanProof of Concept StudySensitivity and SpecificityTuberculosisAntibodies, BacterialBiomarkersantibody-secreting cellsbiomarkerstuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID32024709
PMCPMC7002306
OpenAlexW3004658676

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