Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27082962›Full record

ArticlePloS one2016

High Frequency of Chlamydia trachomatis Mixed Infections Detected by Microarray Assay in South American Samples.

Lucía Gallo Vaulet, Carolina Entrocassi, Ana I Portu, Erica Castro, Susana Di Bartolomeo, Anke Ruettger, Konrad Sachse, Marcelo Rodriguez Fermepin

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in PloS one, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis genital infections in the era of genomic medicine.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2021
    Review
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
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

8 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Lucía Gallo VauletUniversidad de Buenos Aires. Cátedra de Microbiología Clínica, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Carolina EntrocassiUniversidad de Buenos Aires. Cátedra de Microbiología Clínica, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Ana I PortuUniversidad de Buenos Aires. Cátedra de Microbiología Clínica, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Erica CastroFacultad de Medicina, Universidad de San Sebastián, Concepción, Chile.
Susana Di BartolomeoSección Bioquímica Microbiológica, Servicio de Bioquímica, Hospital Nacional Profesor A. Posadas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Anke RuettgerInstitute of Molecular Pathogenesis, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (Federal Research Institute for Animal Health), Jena, Germany.
Konrad SachseInstitute of Molecular Pathogenesis, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (Federal Research Institute for Animal Health), Jena, Germany.
Marcelo Rodriguez FermepinUniversidad de Buenos Aires. Cátedra de Microbiología Clínica, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
University of Buenos Aires · ARFriedrich-Loeffler-Institut · DEHospital Posadas · ARSan Sebastián University · CL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chlamydia trachomatis is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections worldwide. Based on sequence variation in the ompA gene encoding the major outer membrane protein, the genotyping scheme distinguishes 17 recognized genotypes, i.e. A, B, Ba, C, D, Da, E, F, G, H, I, Ia, J, K, L1, L2, and L3. Genotyping is an important tool for epidemiological tracking of C. trachomatis infections, including the revelation of transmission pathways and association with tissue tropism and pathogenicity. Moreover, genotyping can be useful for clinicians to establish the correct treatment when LGV strains are detected. Recently a microarray assay was described that offers several advantages, such as rapidity, ease of standardization and detection of mixed infections. The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of the DNA microarray-based assay for C. trachomatis genotyping of clinical samples already typed by PCR-RFLP from South America. The agreement between both typing techniques was 90.05% and the overall genotype distribution obtained with both techniques was similar. Detection of mixed-genotype infections was significantly higher using the microarray assay (8.4% of cases) compared to PCR-RFLP (0.5%). Among 178 samples, the microarray assay identified 10 ompA genotypes, i.e. D, Da, E, F, G, H, I, J, K and L2. The most predominant type was genotype E, followed by D and F.

Indexed as

Molecular Diagnostic TechniquesOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisBacterial Typing TechniquesChlamydia InfectionsChlamydia trachomatisCoinfectionDNA, BacterialFemaleFemale Urogenital DiseasesGenotypeHumansMaleMale Urogenital DiseasesPolymerase Chain ReactionPolymorphism, Restriction Fragment LengthPrevalenceDNA, Bacterial

Identifiers

PMID27082962
PMCPMC4833370
OpenAlexW2342130855

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

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.