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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2017

Meatal Swabs Contain Less Cellular Material and Are Associated with a Decrease in Gram Stain Smear Quality Compared to Urethral Swabs in Men.

Stephen J Jordan, Jane R Schwebke, Kristal J Aaron, Barbara Van Der Pol, Edward W Hook

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In one paragraph

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 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 32% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Atypical, Yet Not Infrequent, Infections withPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019
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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 1 country.

Stephen J JordanDepartment of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, USA sjjordan@uabmc.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4063-2566
Jane R SchwebkeDepartment of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Kristal J AaronDepartment of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Barbara Van Der PolDepartment of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3064-8564
Edward W HookDepartment of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
University of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

The UAB Sexually Transmitted Infections Cooperative Research Centers (STI CRC)U19AI113212 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI GEISLER, WILLIAM M · 2014 to 2018
$10.0M
NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI113212
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Urethral swabs are the samples of choice for point-of-care Gram stain testing to diagnose

Indexed as

AdultAgedBacterial InfectionsBacteriological TechniquesChlamydia trachomatisGentian VioletHumansMaleMiddle AgedNeisseria gonorrhoeaePhenazinesSpecimen HandlingStaining and LabelingUrethritisYoung AdultGentian VioletGram's stainPhenazinesChlamydia trachomatisGram stainmeatal swabsNeisseria gonorrhoeaeurethral swabs

Identifiers

PMID28490486
PMCPMC5483927
OpenAlexW2612054762

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Registered trials

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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.