Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33625351›Full record

ArticleJournal of medical microbiology2021

The simple direct slide method is comparable to indirect Lowenstein Jensen proportion culture for detecting rifampicin resistant tuberculosis.

Beatrice Achan, Benon B Asiimwe, Moses L Joloba, Mourad Gumusboga, Willy Ssengooba, Freddie Bwanga

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Article in Journal of medical microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 44% of its field
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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Beatrice AchanDepartment of Medical Microbiology, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University Kampala, Uganda.
Benon B AsiimweDepartment of Medical Microbiology, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University Kampala, Uganda.
Moses L JolobaDepartment of Immunology, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Mourad GumusbogaMycobacteriology Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
Willy SsengoobaDepartment of Medical Microbiology, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University Kampala, Uganda.
Freddie BwangaDepartment of Immunology, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Makerere University · UGInstituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde · BE

Funding

NURTURE:Research Training and Mentoring Program for Career Development of Faculty at Makerere University College of Health SciencesD43TW010132 · FIC · MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES · PI SEWANKAMBO, NELSON K · 2015 to 2019
$4.3M
FIC NIH HHS D43 TW010132
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Drug Resistance, MicrobialAdultAntibiotics, AntitubercularFemaleHumansMaleMicrobial Sensitivity TestsMicroscopyMiddle AgedMycobacterium tuberculosisRifampinSensitivity and SpecificitySputumTime FactorsTuberculosisUgandaAntibiotics, AntitubercularRifampinRifampicin resistant tuberculosisSlide DST

Identifiers

PMID33625351
PMCPMC8890059
OpenAlexW3131097530

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Registered trials

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