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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2011

Comparison of two molecular methods for rapid diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis.

Manuel Causse, Pilar Ruiz, Juan Bautista Gutiérrez-Aroca, Manuel Casal

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers, 18 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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

70 citing papers in PubMed, 18 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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10 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

4 authors.

Manuel CausseMicrobiology Service, Reina Sofia University Hospital, Mycobacteria Reference Center, Avda. Menendez Pidal s/n, 14004 Córdoba, Spain.
Pilar Ruiz
Juan Bautista Gutiérrez-Aroca
Manuel Casal

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Application of real-time PCR for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis enables results to be obtained in about 2 h. A total of 340 nonrespiratory samples were processed using two real-time PCR assay kits: Xpert MTB/RIF and Cobas TaqMan MTB. The sensitivity and specificity of the Xpert assay were 95% and 100%, respectively, compared to 78% and 98% for the Cobas assay.

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AdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overBacteriological TechniquesChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesMycobacterium tuberculosisSensitivity and SpecificityTuberculosisYoung Adult

Identifiers

PMID21653775
PMCPMC3147762

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