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ArticleClinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology2004

Impact of serological methodology on assessment of the link between Chlamydia pneumoniae and vascular diseases.

Boulos Maraha, Martin den Heijer, Jan Kluytmans, Marcel Peeters

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Article in Clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Lack of microbial DNA in tissue specimens of patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms and positive Chlamydiales serology.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2007
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Boulos MarahaRegional Laboratory for Medical Microbiology, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. b.maraha@asz.nl
Martin den Heijer
Jan Kluytmans
Marcel Peeters
Amphia Ziekenhuis · NLElisabeth-TweeSteden Ziekenhuis · NLUniversity Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We assessed the impact of five serologic tests on the link between Chlamydia pneumoniae and abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). The results of the tests were inconsistent. Agreement among the five tests was generally poor. Detection of the link between C. pneumoniae and AAA depends on the serologic methodology chosen.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntibodies, BacterialAortic Aneurysm, AbdominalCase-Control StudiesChlamydophila InfectionsChlamydophila pneumoniaeEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayFemaleFluorescent Antibody TechniqueHumansImmunoglobulin GMaleReproducibility of ResultsSerologic TestsVascular DiseasesAntibodies, BacterialImmunoglobulin G

Identifiers

PMID15242959
PMCPMC440624
OpenAlexW2095983770

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