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ArticleThe international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease2022

Does BCG vaccination protect against infection with

P T Pelzer, Y Smit, E W Tiemersma, N T Huong, N V Nhung, F Cobelens

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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, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 33% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

P T PelzerKNCV Tuberculosis foundation, Technical division, The Hague, The Netherlands, Department of Global Health and Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Y SmitKNCV Tuberculosis foundation, Technical division, The Hague, The Netherlands.
E W TiemersmaKNCV Tuberculosis foundation, Technical division, The Hague, The Netherlands.
N T HuongNTP Vietnam, National Lung Hospital, Hanoi, Viet Nam.
N V NhungKNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, Country office in Vietnam, Hanoi, Viet Nam.
F CobelensDepartment of Global Health and Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative · NLAmsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development · NLAmsterdam University Medical Centers · NLHanoi Lung Hospital · VN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Mycobacterium tuberculosisTuberculosis, Lymph NodeBCG VaccineChildCicatrixHumansInfant, NewbornVaccinationBCG Vaccine

Identifiers

PMID35650705
PMCPMC9165740
OpenAlexW4282934416

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Registered trials

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