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ReviewThe Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD2005

Molecular diagnosis of severe acute respiratory syndrome: the state of the art.

James B Mahony, Susan Richardson

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Review in The Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 26% 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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Pathogenic viruses: Molecular detection and characterization.Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases · 2020
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  9. The diagnosis of pandemic coronavirus pneumonia: A review of radiology examination and laboratory test.Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology · 2020
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  10. Evidence and possible mechanisms of rare maternal-fetal transmission of SARS-CoV-2.Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology · 2020
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  15. Emerging pathogens: challenges and successes of molecular diagnostics.The Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD · 2008
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  16. Evolution of genomes, host shifts and the geographic spread of SARS-CoV and related coronaviruses.Cladistics : the international journal of the Willi Hennig Society · 2008
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  17. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV).Perspectives in medical virology · 2006
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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

James B MahonyRegional Virology Laboratory, St. Joseph's Hospital, 50 Charlton Ave. East, Hamilton, ON L8N 4A6, Canada. mahonyj@mcmaster.ca
Susan Richardson
McMaster University · CAUniversity Health Network · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) first appeared in Guangdong Province, China, in November 2002. Although virus isolation and serology were useful early in the SARS outbreak for diagnosing new cases, these tests are not generally useful because virus culture requires a BSL-3 laboratory and seroconversion is often delayed until 2 to 3 weeks after infection. The first qualitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction tests for SARS-coronavirus (CoV) were sensitive and capable of detecting 1 to 10 genome equivalents. These assays were quickly supplemented with quantitative real-time assays that helped elucidate the natural history of SARS, particularly the initial presence of low viral loads in the upper respiratory tract and high viral loads in the lower respiratory tract. The unique natural history of SARS-CoV infection dictates the testing of both respiratory and nonrespiratory specimens, the testing of multiple specimens from the same patient, and sending out positives to be confirmed by a reference laboratory. Commercially available reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction tests for SARS have recently appeared; however, meaningful evaluations of these assays have not yet been performed and their true performance has not been determined. These and other issues related to diagnosis of SARS-CoV infection are discussed in this review.

Indexed as

AnimalsHumansReagent Kits, DiagnosticReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA, ViralSevere Acute Respiratory SyndromeSevere acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirusSpecimen HandlingReagent Kits, DiagnosticRNA, Viral

Identifiers

PMID16258152
PMCPMC1867551
OpenAlexW1128463

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