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ReviewApplied and environmental microbiology2011

Methodologies for Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica subtyping: gold standards and alternatives.

Pierre Wattiau, Cécile Boland, Sophie Bertrand

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Review in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 105 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
105citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
23.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

105 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 256 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Pierre WattiauVeterinary & Agrochemical Research Centre, Highly Pathogenic & Food Borne Zoonoses Unit, Groeselenbergstr. 99, B-1180 Brussels, Belgium. Pierre.Wattiau@CODA-CERVA.BE
Cécile Boland
Sophie Bertrand
Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre · BEInstitut Scientifique de Santé Publique · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For more than 80 years, subtyping of Salmonella enterica has been routinely performed by serotyping, a method in which surface antigens are identified based on agglutination reactions with specific antibodies. The serotyping scheme, which is continuously updated as new serovars are discovered, has generated over time a data set of the utmost significance, allowing long-term epidemiological surveillance of Salmonella in the food chain and in public health control. Conceptually, serotyping provides no information regarding the phyletic relationships inside the different Salmonella enterica subspecies. In epidemiological investigations, identification and tracking of salmonellosis outbreaks require the use of methods that can fingerprint the causative strains at a taxonomic level far more specific than the one achieved by serotyping. During the last 2 decades, alternative methods that could successfully identify the serovar of a given strain by probing its DNA have emerged, and molecular biology-based methods have been made available to address phylogeny and fingerprinting issues. At the same time, accredited diagnostics have become increasingly generalized, imposing stringent methodological requirements in terms of traceability and measurability. In these new contexts, the hand-crafted character of classical serotyping is being challenged, although it is widely accepted that classification into serovars should be maintained. This review summarizes and discusses modern typing methods, with a particular focus on those having potential as alternatives for classical serotyping or for subtyping Salmonella strains at a deeper level.

Indexed as

Epidemiologic MethodsAnimalsBacterial Typing TechniquesHumansSalmonella entericaSalmonella InfectionsSalmonella Infections, Animal

Identifiers

PMID21856826
PMCPMC3209009
OpenAlexW2150083824

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