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ArticleThe Lancet. Respiratory medicine2021

Face masks in the post-COVID-19 era: a silver lining for the damaged tuberculosis public health response?

Koen Vanden Driessche, Precious Z Mahlobo, Rouxjeane Venter, Judy Caldwell, Karen Jennings, Andreas H Diacon, Mark F Cotton, Ronald de Groot, Niel Hens, Florian M Marx and 3 more

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Article in The Lancet. Respiratory medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
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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

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  19. The impact of COVID-19 on TB: a review of the data.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Koen Vanden DriesscheDSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and SA/MRC Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town 7550, South Africa; Division of Paediatric Pulmonology, Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital Antwerp, Edegem, Belgium; Section Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Radboud Centre for Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Precious Z MahloboDSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and SA/MRC Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town 7550, South Africa.
Rouxjeane VenterDSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and SA/MRC Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town 7550, South Africa.
Judy CaldwellDepartment of Health, City of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Karen JenningsDepartment of Health, City of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Andreas H DiaconDepartment of Medicine, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa; TASK Applied Science, Cape Town, South Africa.
Mark F CottonFamily Clinical Centre for Research with Ubuntu (FAMCRU), Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
Ronald de GrootSection Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Radboud Centre for Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Niel HensFamily Medicine and Population Health (FAMPOP), Centre for Health Economic Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases (CHERMID), and Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics (I-BIOSTAT), Data Science Institute, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium.
Florian M MarxDesmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa; DSI-NRF South African Centre of Excellence in Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Robin M WarrenDSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and SA/MRC Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town 7550, South Africa.
Hridesh MishraDSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and SA/MRC Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town 7550, South Africa.
Grant TheronDSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and SA/MRC Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town 7550, South Africa. Electronic address: gtheron@sun.ac.za.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Communicable Disease ControlCOVID-19Health PolicyHumansMasksMycobacterium tuberculosisSARS-CoV-2Social StigmaTuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID33493446
PMCPMC7826055

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