ArticleBMC infectious diseases2026
Helicobacter pylori infection carrying the CagA gene may be associated with the diagnosis and disease progression of tuberculosis.
Article in BMC infectious diseases, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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
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.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectiveHelicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection is associated with infectious diseases caused by pathogens such as Orientia tsutsugamushi (the causative agent of scrub typhus) and Brucella. However, the impact of H. pylori infection on tuberculosis (TB) remains unclear, and in particular, the clinical significance of infection with CagA-positive(CagA
methodsA total of 120 TB patients clinically diagnosed at the Affiliated Hospital of Youjiang Medical University for Nationalities and the Fourth People's Hospital of Nanning from June 2023 to December 2024 were selected as the observation group. The control group consisted of 130 healthy individuals who underwent physical examinations at the same hospitals during the same period, matched by gender, age, and place of residence. The subjects underwent serum H. pylori antibody detection and strain typing using the Western blot method.
result①The H. pylori infection rate was 67.5% in TB patients, slightly higher than 52.3% in healthy individuals, with no statistically significant difference(χ²=1.512, p = 0.219); however, the infection rate of the CagA
conclusionInfection with CagA gene-carrying H. pylori may facilitate the diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and may influence the disease course of TB.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
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.