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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2017

Stability Studies on Dry Swabs and Wet Mailed Swabs for Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Aptima Assays.

Jeanne Moncada, Carey B Clark, Jeffrey Holden, Edward W Hook, Charlotte A Gaydos, Julius Schachter

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 33% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. The Natural History of Rectal Gonococcal and Chlamydial Infections: The ExGen Study.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2022
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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

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jeanne MoncadaDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA Jeanne.moncada@ucsf.edu.
Carey B ClarkDivision of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Jeffrey HoldenDivision of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Edward W HookDivision of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Charlotte A GaydosDivision of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Julius SchachterDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
Johns Hopkins University · USUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Aptima Combo 2 (AC2) and Aptima CT (ACT) (Hologic Inc., San Diego, CA) are nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) that detect

Indexed as

Bacteriological TechniquesChlamydia InfectionsChlamydia trachomatisGonorrheaHumansNeisseria gonorrhoeaeSpecimen HandlingTemperatureTime FactorsUnited StatesChlamydia trachomatisdetectionNeisseria gonorrhoeaenucleic acid amplification teststabilityswabs

Identifiers

PMID28077695
PMCPMC5328466
OpenAlexW2573416348

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