Understanding ischemia in children with tuberculous meningitis (iThemba): a protocol paper

Carien Truter, Melissa S. Hamilton, Camilla Le Roux, Bianca Berndorfler, Chané Buys, Magriet van Niekerk, Ronald van Toorn, Claire Dunican, Ilana van Rensburg, Kim Stanley, Sean Vermeulen, Anneke C. Hesseling, Alex Doruyter, James Warwick, Patrick Dupont, Louvina van der Laan, Christelle Ackermann, Karen du Preez, Dan Zaharie, Marlo Möller, Lindsey te Brake, Elin Svensson, Rob Aarnoutse, Myrsini Kaforou, Mike Levin, Novel Chegou, Regan Solomons, James A. Seddon

Open source

DOI: 10.1186/s12887-026-06598-9
Published: 2026-03-13
Container: BMC Pediatrics
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Open access: unknown

Credibility signals

uncertain Score 64/100 under policy 1.0.0. This is a metadata assessment, not a judgment of the paper's conclusions.

Show all credibility signals

supportingDOI registered: A matching record was returned by Crossref. Source: Crossref; license: CC0 metadata
supportingDOI resolves: A matching record was returned by Crossref. Source: Crossref; license: CC0 metadata
not scoredDirectory of Open Access Journals: No matching DOAJ record was present in this response. No allow-list match; this is not evidence of low credibility. Source: DOAJ; license: CC0
not scoredMEDLINE indexed: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredOpenAlex core source: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredKnown publisher allow-list: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredROR affiliation: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredRetraction Watch retraction: No retraction notice matched this DOI in the deployed snapshot. No matching event found; coverage may be incomplete. Source: Retraction Watch; license: CC BY 4.0
not scoredRetraction Watch expression of concern: No expression of concern notice matched this DOI in the deployed snapshot. No matching event found; coverage may be incomplete. Source: Retraction Watch; license: CC BY 4.0
not scoredRetraction Watch correction: No correction notice matched this DOI in the deployed snapshot. No matching event found; coverage may be incomplete. Source: Retraction Watch; license: CC BY 4.0
not scoredRetraction Watch reinstatement: No reinstatement notice matched this DOI in the deployed snapshot. No matching event found; coverage may be incomplete. Source: Retraction Watch; license: CC BY 4.0
not scoredOpen access status: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredPublication license: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredPublication version: A publication version was supplied but is not scored. Source: Normalized work metadata; license: Caller-provided; provenance license not supplied to scorer
supportingMetadata completeness: All 6 scored descriptive metadata groups are present. Source: Normalized work metadata; license: Caller-provided; provenance license not supplied to scorer

Cite this work

BibTeX

@article{allodium:10.1186/s12887-026-06598-9,
  title = {Understanding ischemia in children with tuberculous meningitis (iThemba): a protocol paper},
  author = {Carien Truter and Melissa S. Hamilton and Camilla Le Roux and Bianca Berndorfler and Chané Buys and Magriet van Niekerk and Ronald van Toorn and Claire Dunican and Ilana van Rensburg and Kim Stanley and Sean Vermeulen and Anneke C. Hesseling and Alex Doruyter and James Warwick and Patrick Dupont and Louvina van der Laan and Christelle Ackermann and Karen du Preez and Dan Zaharie and Marlo Möller and Lindsey te Brake and Elin Svensson and Rob Aarnoutse and Myrsini Kaforou and Mike Levin and Novel Chegou and Regan Solomons and James A. Seddon},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {BMC Pediatrics},
  doi = {10.1186/s12887-026-06598-9},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-026-06598-9}
}

RIS

TY  - JOUR
TI  - Understanding ischemia in children with tuberculous meningitis (iThemba): a protocol paper
AU  - Carien Truter
AU  - Melissa S. Hamilton
AU  - Camilla Le Roux
AU  - Bianca Berndorfler
AU  - Chané Buys
AU  - Magriet van Niekerk
AU  - Ronald van Toorn
AU  - Claire Dunican
AU  - Ilana van Rensburg
AU  - Kim Stanley
AU  - Sean Vermeulen
AU  - Anneke C. Hesseling
AU  - Alex Doruyter
AU  - James Warwick
AU  - Patrick Dupont
AU  - Louvina van der Laan
AU  - Christelle Ackermann
AU  - Karen du Preez
AU  - Dan Zaharie
AU  - Marlo Möller
AU  - Lindsey te Brake
AU  - Elin Svensson
AU  - Rob Aarnoutse
AU  - Myrsini Kaforou
AU  - Mike Levin
AU  - Novel Chegou
AU  - Regan Solomons
AU  - James A. Seddon
PY  - 2026
JO  - BMC Pediatrics
DO  - 10.1186/s12887-026-06598-9
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-026-06598-9
ER  -

APA

Truter, C., Hamilton, M. S., Roux, C. L., Berndorfler, B., Buys, C., Niekerk, M. V., Toorn, R. V., Dunican, C., Rensburg, I. V., Stanley, K., Vermeulen, S., Hesseling, A. C., Doruyter, A., Warwick, J., Dupont, P., Laan, L. V. D., Ackermann, C., Preez, K. D., Zaharie, D., Möller, M., Brake, L. T., Svensson, E., Aarnoutse, R., Kaforou, M., Levin, M., Chegou, N., Solomons, R., & Seddon, J. A. (2026). Understanding ischemia in children with tuberculous meningitis (iThemba): a protocol paper. BMC Pediatrics. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-026-06598-9

Source records

crossref · retrieved 2026-09-27T04:07:10.833Z