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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2016

Detection of Group B Streptococcus Directly from Collected ESwab Samples by Use of the BD Max GBS Assay.

Suzane Silbert, Talita T Rocchetti, Alicia Gostnell, Carly Kubasek, Raymond Widen

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In one paragraph

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 16 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

5 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Suzane SilbertEsoteric Testing Laboratory, Pathology Department, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, Florida, USA ssilbert@tgh.org.
Talita T RocchettiEsoteric Testing Laboratory, Pathology Department, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Alicia GostnellEsoteric Testing Laboratory, Pathology Department, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Carly KubasekEsoteric Testing Laboratory, Pathology Department, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Raymond WidenEsoteric Testing Laboratory, Pathology Department, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Tampa General Hospital · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Group B Streptococcus detection directly from Copan ESwab collected samples, using the BD Max GBS assay, was evaluated on receipt in the laboratory and after 24 h at room temperature. Results were compared to those using Lim broth enrichment PCR and culture. No significant difference was observed between 24 h ESwab and Lim broth PCRs.

Indexed as

Bacteriological TechniquesFemaleHumansInfant, NewbornMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesPolymerase Chain ReactionPregnancySensitivity and SpecificitySpecimen HandlingStreptococcus agalactiae

Identifiers

PMID27053670
PMCPMC4879306
OpenAlexW2395767037

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