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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2016

A Word of Caution in Considering the Use of the Lipoarabinomannan Lateral Flow Assay on Cerebrospinal Fluid for Detection of Tuberculous Meningitis.

Nathan C Bahr, Lillian Tugume, David R Boulware

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 31% 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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Fujifilm SILVAMP TB LAM Assay on Cerebrospinal Fluid for the Detection of Tuberculous Meningitis in Adults With Human Immunodeficiency Virus.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021
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  7. Performance of nested RT-PCR on CSF for tuberculous meningitis diagnosis in HIV-infected patients.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Nathan C BahrDivision of Infectious Diseases, University of Kansas, Kansas City, Kansas, USA Division of Infectious Disease and International Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA nbahr@kumc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9431-8938
Lillian TugumeInfectious Disease Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
David R BoulwareDivision of Infectious Disease and International Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
University of Minnesota · USMakerere University · UG

Funding

Improving Diagnostics and Neurocognitive Outcomes in HIV/AIDS-related MeningitisR01NS086312 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI David R Boulware, David Bisagaya Meya · 2013 to 2026
$8.3M
Infectious Disease Training in Clinical InvestigationT32AI055433 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI David R Boulware · 2003 to 2026
$6.1M
Medical Research Council MR/M007413/1NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI055433NIAID NIH HHS T32AI055433NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS086312NINDS NIH HHS R01NS086312
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Cerebrospinal FluidDNA, BacterialFemaleHIV InfectionsHumansImmunoassayLipopolysaccharidesMaleMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesTuberculosis, MeningealDNA, BacterialLipopolysaccharides

Identifiers

PMID26719583
PMCPMC4702762
OpenAlexW4249804455

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Registered trials

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