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ReviewClinical microbiology reviews2022

Tuberculosis Treatment Monitoring and Outcome Measures: New Interest and New Strategies.

Jan Heyckendorf, Sophia B Georghiou, Nicole Frahm, Norbert Heinrich, Irina Kontsevaya, Maja Reimann, David Holtzman, Marjorie Imperial, Daniela M Cirillo, Stephen H Gillespie and 2 more

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Review in Clinical microbiology reviews, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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57citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

57 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. Metagenomic next-generation sequencing forFrontiers in public health · 2023
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  6. What is new in tuberculosis?Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2026
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  7. Closing gaps through innovation in the tuberculosis pathology value chain.Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases · 2026
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  8. Future Prospects for Using Clinical Phenotypes in Tuberculosis Precision Medicine-An Approach for Clinical Management.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2026
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  13. Beyond culturability: VBNC-like and differentially culturableFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Jan Heyckendorf *Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany.
Sophia B Georghiou *FIND, the Global Alliance for Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland.
Nicole FrahmBill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Norbert HeinrichDivision of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Centre of the University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany.
Irina KontsevayaDivision of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany.
Maja ReimannDivision of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany.
David HoltzmanFIND, the Global Alliance for Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland.
Marjorie ImperialUniversity of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA, United States.
Daniela M CirilloEmerging Bacterial Pathogens Unit, Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6415-1535
Stephen H GillespieSchool of Medicine, University of St Andrewsgrid.11914.3c, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.
Morten RuhwaldFIND, the Global Alliance for Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1597-441X
UNITE4TB Consortium

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the advent of new diagnostics, drugs and regimens, tuberculosis (TB) remains a global public health threat. A significant challenge for TB control efforts has been the monitoring of TB therapy and determination of TB treatment success. Current recommendations for TB treatment monitoring rely on sputum and culture conversion, which have low sensitivity and long turnaround times, present biohazard risk, and are prone to contamination, undermining their usefulness as clinical treatment monitoring tools and for drug development. We review the pipeline of molecular technologies and assays that serve as suitable substitutes for current culture-based readouts for treatment response and outcome with the potential to change TB therapy monitoring and accelerate drug development.

Indexed as

Mycobacterium tuberculosisTuberculosisAntitubercular AgentsHazardous SubstancesHumansTreatment OutcomeAntitubercular AgentsHazardous Substancesbiomarkersoutcometreatment monitoringtuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID35311552
PMCPMC9491169

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