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ArticleThe Lancet. Global health2021

Cytomegalovirus and tuberculosis disease in children.

Helena Rabie, Lisa Jane Frigati, Nokwasi Nkosi

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Article in The Lancet. Global health, 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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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.

  1. Does cytomegalovirus infection increase the risk of tuberculosis in UK children?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
    Observational
  2. Respiratory virome in hospitalized children and analysis of its correlation with disease severity.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2025
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Helena RabieDepartment of Paediatrics and Child Health, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa; Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Cape Town 7505, South Africa. Electronic address: hrabie@sun.ac.za.
Lisa Jane FrigatiDepartment of Paediatrics and Child Health, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa; Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Cape Town 7505, South Africa.
Nokwasi NkosiDivision of Medical Virology, National Health Laboratory Services, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Mycobacterium tuberculosisTuberculosisChildCytomegalovirusHumans

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PMID34798013

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