When Infections Don't Reflect Infectiousness: Interpreting Contact Investigation Data With Care.

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.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Within-household transmission risk of pulmonary tuberculosis in the era of universal antiretroviral therapy.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026
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2. Estimating the contribution of subclinical tuberculosis disease to transmission: An individual patient data analysis from prevalence surveys.eLife · 2023
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3. Disease Transmission by Patients With Subclinical Tuberculosis.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023
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4. Fine-grain population structure and transmission patterns ofMicrobial genomics · 2022
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Corrections and comments

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  Transmission Dynamics in Tuberculosis Patients With Human Immunodeficiency Virus: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of 32 Observational Studies.2021

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Abstract

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