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ReviewJournal of global infectious diseases

Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Management: Recent Advances.

Arti Shrivas, Sarman Singh

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Review in Journal of global infectious diseases. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 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

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

  1. Association of Serum ADA Levels in Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026
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  2. What is new in tuberculosis?Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Arti ShrivasDepartment of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Sarman SinghDepartment of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accurate and rapid diagnosis is crucial for starting effective treatment for tuberculosis (TB) and mitigating the transmission. Globally, nearly one-third of all TB cases remain undetected each year and consequently these are not reported. On top of that, the emergence of drug-resistant TB poses an added challenge. In the past 15 years, several advances have been made for improved diagnosis, including liquid culture and drug susceptibility, line probe assay for drug resistance detection, and cartridge-based nucleic acid amplification tests for rapid diagnosis of TB and drug resistance detection. However, some challenges remain, despite the clear edge of these new advances over the age-old conventional methods. Despite these advances, accurate, affordable, and accessible diagnosis of TB remains a challenge, especially in rural and difficult-to-reach settings, where the most desirable test would be a point-of-care triage test. Nevertheless, several attempts are being made in this direction, and in this article, we review these research advances that can help the TB elimination from India.

Indexed as

GeneXpertmultiplex polymerase chain reactionpoint of care test (POCT)tuberculosisyield

Identifiers

PMID40290202
PMCPMC12021348

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