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ArticleClinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2021

It Is Time to Focus on Asymptomatic Tuberculosis.

Emily B Wong

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Article in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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31citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

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

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

  1. Pooled it
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Emily B WongAfrica Health Research Institute, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Funding

Studies of Mucosal Associated Invariant T (MAIT) cells in people with HIV, TB and HIV/TB co-infection in South AfricaK08AI118538 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI WONG, EMILY BETH · 2015 to 2019
$950k
Quantification of patterns of multimorbidity to develop effective and efficient models of HIV, TB and NCD co-care in rural South AfricaR21TW011687 · FIC · KWAZULU-NATAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE TB-HIV · PI TANSER, FRANK COURTENEY, WONG, EMILY BETH · 2020 to 2021
$347k
FIC NIH HHS R21 TW011687NIAID NIH HHS K08 AI118538
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Latent TuberculosisTuberculosisHealth FacilitiesHumansUgandaimmunitysubclinicaltransmissiontuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID33283223
PMCPMC8204778

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