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ReviewFrontiers in tuberculosis2023

Innovative laboratory methods for improved tuberculosis diagnosis and drug-susceptibility testing.

Nathan Mugenyi, Nelson Ssewante, Joseph Baruch Baluku, Felix Bongomin, Mutuku Mukenya Irene, Alfred Andama, Pauline Byakika-Kibwika

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Review in Frontiers in tuberculosis, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  2. Current laboratory diagnostics for tuberculosis: from conventional approaches to next-generation molecular and immunological technologies.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2026
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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

7 authors.

Nathan MugenyiFaculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda.
Nelson SsewanteChild Health and Development Centre, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Joseph Baruch BalukuDivision of Pulmonology, Kiruddu National Referral Hospital, Kampala, Uganda.
Felix BongominDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Gulu University, Gulu, Uganda.
Mutuku Mukenya IreneDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Kabale University, Kabale, Uganda.
Alfred AndamaDepartment of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Pauline Byakika-KibwikaDepartment of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The laboratory plays a vital role in the diagnosis of all clinical forms of tuberculosis (TB), from microbiological confirmation of

Indexed as

diagnostic methods - policiesdrug susceptibility testinginnovative laboratory methodsTB diagnosistreatment monitoring

Identifiers

PMID42638753
PMCPMC13494940

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