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ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2020

'TB or not TB': the conundrum of pre-European contact tuberculosis in the Pacific.

S K McDonald, E A Matisoo-Smith, H R Buckley, R K Walter, H L Aung, C J Collins, G M Cook, O Kardailsky, J Krause, M Knapp

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Article in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 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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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Insights into health and disease from ancient biomolecules.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

S K McDonaldDepartment of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand.
E A Matisoo-SmithDepartment of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand.
H R BuckleyDepartment of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand.
R K WalterArchaeology Programme, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand.
H L AungDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand.
C J CollinsDepartment of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand.
G M CookDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand.
O KardailskyDepartment of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand.
J KrauseMax Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.
M KnappDepartment of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global health threat, infecting one-third of the world's population. Despite this prominence, the age, origin and spread of the disease have been topics of contentious debate. Molecular studies suggest that

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History, 15th CenturyHistory, 16th CenturyHistory, 17th CenturyHistory, 18th CenturyHistory, 19th CenturyHistory, AncientHistory, MedievalHumansMycobacteriumMycobacterium tuberculosisPacific IslandsPaleopathologyTuberculosisinfectious diseasemycobacteriaPacific settlementpalaeopathologyzoonosis

Identifiers

PMID33012234
PMCPMC7702793

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