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ArticleThe Indian journal of medical research

Will bacille Calmette-Guerin immunization arrest the COVID-19 pandemic?

Nasreen Zafar Ehtesham, Jasmine Samal, Faraz Ahmad, Mohd Arish, Farha Naz, Anwar Alam, Usha Agrawal, Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain

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Article in The Indian journal of medical research. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. COVID-19 and tuberculosis: the double whammy of respiratory pathogens.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2022
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  3. Clinical impact of COVID-19 on tuberculosis.Le infezioni in medicina · 2022
    Review
  4. Role of multiple factors likely contributing to severity-mortality of COVID-19.Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases · 2021
    Review
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Nasreen Zafar EhteshamInflammation Biology & Cell Signaling Laboratory, ICMR-National Institute of Pathology, New Delhi 110 029, India.
Jasmine SamalInflammation Biology & Cell Signaling Laboratory, ICMR-National Institute of Pathology, New Delhi 110 029, India.
Faraz AhmadInflammation Biology & Cell Signaling Laboratory, ICMR-National Institute of Pathology, New Delhi 110 029, India.
Mohd ArishInstitute of Molecular Medicine, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi 110 062, India.
Farha NazInflammation Biology & Cell Signaling Laboratory, ICMR-National Institute of Pathology, New Delhi 110 029, India.
Anwar AlamInflammation Biology & Cell Signaling Laboratory, ICMR-National Institute of Pathology, New Delhi 110 029, India.
Usha AgrawalTumor Biology Laboratory, ICMR-National Institute of Pathology, New Delhi 110 029, India.
Seyed Ehtesham HasnainInstitute of Molecular Medicine, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi 110 062; Dr. Reddy's Institute of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad 500 046, Telangana, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

BCG VaccineBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansImmunizationIndiaPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2BCG Vaccine

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PMID32859863
PMCPMC7853263

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