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ArticleJournal of blood transfusion2016

A Comparative Study of Assay Performance of Commercial Hepatitis E Virus Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Kits in Australian Blood Donor Samples.

Ashish C Shrestha, Robert L P Flower, Clive R Seed, Susan L Stramer, Helen M Faddy

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Article in Journal of blood transfusion, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Performance of Elecsys Anti-HEV IgG and IgM Assays for the Detection of Acute, Recent or Past Hepatitis E Virus Infection.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2026
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  11. Transfusion-transmitted hepatitis E: What we know so far?World journal of gastroenterology · 2022
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  14. Seroprevalence of hepatitis E virus among blood donors on Corsica, France, 2017.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2020
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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 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Ashish C ShresthaResearch and Development, Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Robert L P FlowerResearch and Development, Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Clive R SeedMedical Services, Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Perth, WA, Australia.
Susan L StramerAmerican Red Cross, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
Helen M FaddyResearch and Development, Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-3446-8248
Australian Red Cross Lifeblood · AUThe University of Queensland · AUAmerican Red Cross · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is transfusion-transmissible and therefore poses a risk to blood transfusion safety. Seroprevalence studies are useful for estimating disease burden and determining risk factors. Considerable variability in the sensitivity of HEV antibody detection assays exists. This study aimed to compare the performances of commercially available HEV enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) in Australian blood donor samples. Plasma samples that tested positive (

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PMID27891290
PMCPMC5116528
OpenAlexW2554768185

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