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ReviewThe Veterinary clinics of North America. Small animal practice2003

Update on molecular techniques for diagnostic testing of infectious disease.

Rance K Sellon

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Review in The Veterinary clinics of North America. Small animal practice, 2003. 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.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
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, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Review
  4. Diagnostic investigation of emerging viruses of companion animals.The Veterinary clinics of North America. Small animal practice · 2008
    Review
  5. Article
  6. Methodology in diagnostic virology.The veterinary clinics of North America. Exotic animal practice · 2005
    Review
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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rance K SellonDepartment of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Washington State University, Post Office Box 7060, Pullman, WA 99164, USA. rsellon@vetmed.wsu.edu
Washington State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The era of diagnostic molecular biology has arrived for small animal clinicians, and it is a near certainty that assays such as the PCR and RT-PCR will become more widely available for a wider array of infectious agents. Already there is an extensive list of infectious diseases of dogs and cats that have been investigated with molecular tools. A partial list is included in box 1. An understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of the molecular techniques and some of the questions these techniques can answer for clinicians can serve practitioners well in their approach to the diagnosis of infectious diseases in dogs and cats. It is likely that additional applications of these tools to small animal medicine will become apparent as investigators use and refine them for their research purposes, or as new uses emerge from human medical applications. Clinicians also are likely to reap the benefits of this knowledge. Because samples often are acquired easily from clinical patients in most practice settings, access to these tools puts all clinicians in the group of discoverers of new, or variations of, infectious diseases and their clinical manifestations.

Indexed as

AnimalsCat DiseasesCatsDNA, BacterialDNA, FungalDNA, ProtozoanDNA, ViralDog DiseasesDogsGenetic TechniquesIn Situ HybridizationPolymerase Chain ReactionPolymorphism, Restriction Fragment LengthReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionDNA, BacterialDNA, FungalDNA, ProtozoanDNA, Viral

Identifiers

PMID12910738
PMCPMC7172420
OpenAlexW2035979542

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Registered trials

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