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ArticleThe Journal of infection2020

The COVID-19 pandemic and the true incidence of Tuberculosis in Japan.

Kosaku Komiya, Mari Yamasue, Osamu Takahashi, Kazufumi Hiramatsu, Jun-Ichi Kadota, Seiya Kato

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Article in The Journal of infection, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Kosaku KomiyaRespiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, 1-1 Idaigaoka, Hasama-machi, Yufu, Oita, 879-5593, Japan. Electronic address: komiyakh1@oita-u.ac.jp.
Mari YamasueRespiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, 1-1 Idaigaoka, Hasama-machi, Yufu, Oita, 879-5593, Japan.
Osamu TakahashiGraduate School of Public Health, St. Luke's International University, OMURA Susumu & Mieko Memorial St. Luke's Center for Clinical Academia, 3-6-2 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-0045, Japan.
Kazufumi HiramatsuRespiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, 1-1 Idaigaoka, Hasama-machi, Yufu, Oita, 879-5593, Japan.
Jun-Ichi KadotaRespiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, 1-1 Idaigaoka, Hasama-machi, Yufu, Oita, 879-5593, Japan.
Seiya KatoResearch Institute of Tuberculosis, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association, 3-1-24 Matsuyama, Kiyose, Tokyo, 204-8533, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralTuberculosisBetacoronavirusCOVID-19HumansIncidenceJapanSARS-CoV-2Taiwan

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PMID32650109
PMCPMC7338857

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