Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40843522›Full record

ArticleEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin2025

Cross-border investigation of a tuberculosis outbreak in Vienna linked to a multi-country cluster among foreign-born individuals, Europe, 2021 to 2025.

Fiona Költringer, Maria Koreny, Dirk Werber, Florian Heger, Alena Chalupka, Sabine Schweiger, Georg Brunner, Ursula Tuch, Ursula Karnthaler, Senia Rosales Klintz and 24 more

Erratum issuedAbstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Tracking the evolution of an extensively drug-resistant cross-borderEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2025
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

34 authors.

Fiona KöltringerInstitute for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Vienna, Austria.
Maria KorenyTuberculosis Prevention and Control, Public Health Services, City of Vienna, Austria.
Dirk WerberInstitute for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Vienna, Austria.
Florian HegerNational Reference Centre for Tuberculosis, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Vienna, Austria.
Alena ChalupkaInstitute for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Vienna, Austria.
Sabine SchweigerInstitute for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Vienna, Austria.
Georg BrunnerTuberculosis Prevention and Control, Public Health Services, City of Vienna, Austria.
Ursula TuchTuberculosis Prevention and Control, Public Health Services, City of Vienna, Austria.
Ursula KarnthalerTuberculosis Prevention and Control, Public Health Services, City of Vienna, Austria.
Senia Rosales KlintzEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Csaba KödmönEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Andreas HoeferEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Richard AnthonyCentre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
Stefan KroegerInfectious Disease Epidemiology Department, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Teresa DomaszewskaInfectious Disease Epidemiology Department, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Lena BoesInfectious Disease Epidemiology Department, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Stefan NiemannResearch Center Borstel, National Reference Center for Mycobacteria, and Molecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology, Borstel, Germany.
Teresa WalzResearch Center Borstel, National Reference Center for Mycobacteria, and Molecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology, Borstel, Germany.
Martin KuhnsResearch Center Borstel, National Reference Center for Mycobacteria, and Molecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology, Borstel, Germany.
Sarah JacksonHealth Protection Surveillance Centre, Health Service Executive, Dublin, Ireland.
Margaret FitzgibbonIrish Mycobacteria Reference Laboratory, St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Vanessa MathysNational Reference Centre Mycobacterium, Bacterial Diseases Service, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
Vinciane SizaireFonds des Affections Respiratoires (FARES), Brussels, Belgium.
Daniela Maria CirilloReference Laboratory for Tuberculosis Molecular Surveillance, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
Monica Sane SchepisiItalian Ministry of Health, General Directorate for Health Prevention, Rome, Italy.
Janne Oseberg RønningNorwegian Institute of Public Health, Department of Bacteriology, National Reference Laboratory for Mycobacteria, Oslo, Norway.
Laura Herrera-LeonNational Reference Laboratory for Mycobacteriology, National Microbiology Centre - Carlos III Institute of Health, Madrid, Spain.
Pere-Joan CardonaServei de Microbiologia, Laboratori Clínic Metropolitana Nord. Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Catalonia, Spain.
Laura Gavaldà-MestreSub-Directorate General of Surveillance and Response to Public Health Emergencies, Public Health Agency of Catalonia, Generalitat of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.
Ramona GroenheitPublic Health Agency of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden.
Mikael MansjöPublic Health Agency of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden.
Viktória SzélNational Reference Laboratory for Mycobacteriology, Korányi National Institute for Tuberculosis and Respiratory Medicine, Budapest, Hungary.
Erik AlmEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Adriana CabalInstitute for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Vienna, Austria.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Collaborative genomic and epidemiological investigations identified a tuberculosis outbreak in Vienna as part of a multi-country cluster comprising 57 foreign-born cases of

Indexed as

Disease OutbreaksEmigrants and ImmigrantsMycobacterium tuberculosisTuberculosisAdolescentAdultAgedAustriaCluster AnalysisEuropeFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedYoung AdultClusterCross-borderGenomic surveillanceTuberculosisWhole Genome Sequencing

Identifiers

PMID40843522
PMCPMC12372892

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.