Duration of Effective Tuberculosis Treatment, not Acid-Fast Bacilli (AFB) Smear Status, as the Determinant for Deisolation in Community Settings.

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.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Predictors of culture status in patients with persistent smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis at two months of treatment.BMC infectious diseases · 2026
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2. Community-Based Tuberculosis Isolation Decisions Require Individualization Based on Effectiveness and Duration of Treatment, Community Risks, and Patient Harms.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2025
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Abstract

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