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ArticleThe international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease2021

Infection status of contacts is not associated with severity of TB in the index case.

Y Baik, A Nalutaaya, P J Kitonsa, D W Dowdy, A Katamba, E A Kendall

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Article in The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 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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2citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 48% of its field
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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 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 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Y BaikDepartment of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
A NalutaayaUganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
P J KitonsaUganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
D W DowdyDepartment of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
A KatambaUganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda.
E A KendallDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Makerere University · UGJohns Hopkins University · USJohns Hopkins Medicine · US

Funding

Hotspot versus clinic-based active case finding for TB in Uganda: A pragmatic randomized trialR01HL138728 · NHLBI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI David Wesley Dowdy, Emily A Kendall · 2017 to 2026
$5.4M
Translational modeling of individual- and population-level outcomes of novel tuberculosis drug regimensK08AI127908 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI KENDALL, EMILY A · 2017 to 2021
$879k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL138728NIAID NIH HHS K08 AI127908
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Contact TracingTuberculosis, PulmonaryHumans

Identifiers

PMID33688815
PMCPMC8042661
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