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ArticleFrontiers in public health2023

Implementation of targeted next-generation sequencing for the diagnosis of drug-resistant tuberculosis in low-resource settings: a programmatic model, challenges, and initial outcomes.

Leonardo de Araujo, Andrea Maurizio Cabibbe, Lusia Mhuulu, Nunurai Ruswa, Viola Dreyer, Azaria Diergaardt, Gunar Günther, Mareli Claassens, Christiane Gerlach, Christian Utpatel and 3 more

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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35citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
8.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Leonardo de AraujoMolecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology Group, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany.
Andrea Maurizio CabibbeEmerging Bacterial Pathogens Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
Lusia MhuuluDepartment of Human, Biological & Translational Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia.
Nunurai RuswaNational TB and Leprosy Programme, Ministry of Health and Social Services, Windhoek, Namibia.
Viola DreyerMolecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology Group, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany.
Azaria DiergaardtDepartment of Human, Biological & Translational Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia.
Gunar GüntherDepartment of Human, Biological & Translational Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia.
Mareli ClaassensDepartment of Human, Biological & Translational Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia.
Christiane GerlachMolecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology Group, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany.
Christian UtpatelMolecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology Group, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany.
Daniela Maria CirilloEmerging Bacterial Pathogens Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
Emmanuel NepoloDepartment of Human, Biological & Translational Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia.
Stefan NiemannMolecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology Group, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany.
University of Namibia · NAResearch Center Borstel - Leibniz Lung Center · DEIstituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico San RaffaeleMinistry of Health and Social Services · NAUniversity of Bern · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Targeted next-generation sequencing (tNGS) from clinical specimens has the potential to become a comprehensive tool for routine drug-resistance (DR) prediction of

Indexed as

Tuberculosis, Multidrug-ResistantAfrica, SouthernHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansGenomic diagnosticGenomic surveillancehigh TB burden countrieslow- and middle-income countriesMycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC)Next generation sequencing (NGS)NGS clinical useNGS programmatic implementation

Identifiers

PMID37674674
PMCPMC10478709
OpenAlexW4385515696

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