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ArticleSexually transmitted diseases2013

Is there evidence of the new variant Chlamydia trachomatis in the United States?

Helen Won, Padmini Ramachandran, Richard Steece, Barbara Van Der Pol, Jeanne Moncada, Julius Schachter, Charlotte Gaydos

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Article in Sexually transmitted diseases, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Recommendations for the laboratory-based detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae--2014.MMWR. Recommendations and reports : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Recommendations and reports · 2014
    Article
  3. Diagnostic molecular microbiology: a 2013 snapshot.Clinics in laboratory medicine · 2013
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Helen WonDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Padmini Ramachandran
Richard Steece
Barbara Van Der Pol
Jeanne Moncada
Julius Schachter
Charlotte Gaydos
Johns Hopkins University · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · USCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · USIndiana University Bloomington · US

Funding

TrainingU54EB007958 · NIBIB · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Susan Anne Tuddenham · 2007 to 2026
$34.6M
HIV Prevention Trials Network: Network LaboratoryU01AI068613 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI ESHLEMAN, SUSAN H · 2006 to 2010
$16.5M
NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI068613NIAID NIH HHS U01-AI 068613NIBIB NIH HHS U54 EB007958NIBIB NIH HHS U54EB007958
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A specific real-time polymerase chain reaction followed by melt curve analysis was developed for the detection of the Swedish variant (nvCT) strain of Chlamydia trachomatis (CT). Surveillance was performed on 476 CT-positive clinical specimens obtained from 15 laboratories around the United States using nucleic acid amplification test assays, which would not miss the nvCT. All were negative for nvCT; thus, there is no evidence of the nvCT in the United States.

Indexed as

Chlamydia InfectionsChlamydia trachomatisCommunicable Diseases, EmergingFemaleGenotypeHumansMaleNorwayNucleic Acid Amplification TechniquesPrevalenceReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionSexual BehaviorSwedenUnited States

Identifiers

PMID23588122
PMCPMC3744364
OpenAlexW1988439588

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