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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2009

Performance of the RealStar Chikungunya virus real-time reverse transcription-PCR kit.

Marcus Panning, Markus Hess, Waldemar Fischer, Klaus Grywna, Martin Pfeffer, Christian Drosten

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
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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

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Chikungunya virus infection.Current infectious disease reports · 2011
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  10. Singleplex real-time RT-PCR for detection of influenza A virus and simultaneous differentiation of A/H1N1v and evaluation of the RealStar influenza kit.Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology · 2011
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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

6 authors.

Marcus PanningInstitute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Sigmund Freud-Str. 25, 53127 Bonn, Germany.
Markus Hess
Waldemar Fischer
Klaus Grywna
Martin Pfeffer
Christian Drosten

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A novel commercial Chikungunya virus real-time reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) kit was evaluated on a comprehensive panel of original patient samples. The assay was 100% sensitive and specific in comparison to a published real-time RT-PCR. Viral loads from both assays were highly correlated. The kit proved to be suitable for routine use in patient care.

Indexed as

Alphavirus InfectionsChikungunya virusHumansMolecular Sequence DataReagent Kits, DiagnosticReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA, ViralSensitivity and SpecificitySequence Analysis, DNAViral LoadReagent Kits, DiagnosticRNA, Viral

Identifiers

PMID19625474
PMCPMC2738119

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