ArticleInternational journal of clinical and experimental pathology2014
Protein-coding housekeeping gene Rv2461c can be used as an amplification target in loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum samples.
Article in International journal of clinical and experimental pathology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled 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.
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.
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 2 citations in OpenAlex.
- Low-complexity manual nucleic acid amplification tests for pulmonary tuberculosis in children.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Comparative Proteomic Profiling ofJournal of global infectious diseasesArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The study is to explore the potential of the conserved Rv2461c gene as a biomarker for Tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis. The conservation of the hypothetical genes was evaluated in this study using multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic analysis. The conservation of Rv2461c coding gene was evaluated by polymerase chain reaction using six reference strains of M. tuberculosis complex (MTC), 156 M. tuberculosis clinical isolates, 25 species of non-tuberculosis mycobacteria (NTM), and 10 non-mycobacterial species. A total of 126 clinical sputum specimens were collected from patients with respiratory symptoms, including 79 specimens from suspected TB patients, and 47 specimens from patients with respiratory diseases other than TB. Genomic DNAs were extracted and subject to polymerase chain reaction for nucleic acid amplification test. In addition, we successfully developed loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) technology for rapid detection of M. tuberculosis in sputum specimens. The sensitivity and specificity of LAMP assay were evaluated for the detection of M. tuberculosis. Phylogenetic analysis of the clpP sequences revealed that the Mycobacterium strains were split into two major clusters: i) MTC; ii) NTM strains and M. leprae. During the evaluation of the conservation of Rv2461c coding gene, all MTC strains yielded positive results, and no false-positive results were observed in NTM or other bacterial species. LAMP analysis showed high sensitivity and specificity (84.8% and 95.7%, respectively) for the detection of M. tuberculosis from sputum. Our result indicated that Rv2461c coding gene was an efficient and promising alternative nucleic acid amplification test target for the detection of M. tuberculosis.
Indexed as
Identifiers
25674236PMC4313969W2322666114What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.