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ReviewDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Interferon-Gamma Release Assays Versus Tuberculin Skin Test for Active Tuberculosis Diagnosis: A Systematic Review and Diagnostic Meta-Analysis.

Muhammad Abubaker Tobaiqi, Musleh Naser Alshamrani, Shyamkumar Sriram, Ahmad Bakur Mahmoud, Hammad Ali Fadlalmola, Muayad Albadrani

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Review in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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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.

Muhammad Abubaker TobaiqiDepartment of Family and Community Medicine and Medical Education, College of Medicine, Taibah University, Madinah 42353, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0009-0003-2520-3664
Musleh Naser AlshamraniPreventive Medicine Department, Prince Sultan Armed Forces Hospital in Madinah, Madinah 42375, Saudi Arabia.
Shyamkumar SriramDepartment of Rehabilitation and Health Services, College of Health and Public Service, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203, USA.
Ahmad Bakur MahmoudDepartment of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Taibah University, Madinah 42353, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-1515-2352
Hammad Ali FadlalmolaDepartment of Community Health Nursing, Nursing College, Taibah University, Madinah 42353, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-5065-9626
Muayad AlbadraniDepartment of Family and Community Medicine and Medical Education, College of Medicine, Taibah University, Madinah 42353, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-7486-1677

Funding

the Research, Development, and Innovation Authority (RDIA)-Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 12982-iau-2023-TAU-R-3-1-HW-
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs)sensitivityspecificitytuberculin skin test (TST)tuberculosis diagnosis

Identifiers

PMID41008717
PMCPMC12468246

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