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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2017

Detection of Plasmodium Infection by the illumigene Malaria Assay Compared to Reference Microscopy and Real-Time PCR.

Candace Rypien, Barbara Chow, Wilson W Chan, Deirdre L Church, Dylan R Pillai

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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 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
7.2field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

24 citing papers in PubMed, 61 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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Candace RypienDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Barbara ChowClinical Section of Microbiology, Calgary Laboratory Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Wilson W ChanClinical Section of Microbiology, Calgary Laboratory Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Deirdre L ChurchClinical Section of Microbiology, Calgary Laboratory Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Dylan R PillaiClinical Section of Microbiology, Calgary Laboratory Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada drpillai@ucalgary.ca.
Calgary Laboratory Services · CAUniversity of Calgary · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Malaria is one of the leading causes of infectious disease in travelers returning from the tropics. The diagnosis of malaria is typically performed by examining Giemsa-stained thick and thin peripheral blood smears, which is time consuming, labor intensive, and requires high levels of proficiency. Alternatively, loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) is a new molecular method, which is rapid, sensitive, and requires less capital equipment and technological training. We conducted a retrospective study comparing two formats of a commercial LAMP assay (Meridian

Indexed as

AdultCost-Benefit AnalysisHumansMalaria, FalciparumMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesNucleic Acid Amplification TechniquesPlasmodium falciparumRetrospective StudiesSensitivity and SpecificityYoung AdultdiagnosticsLAMPmalaria

Identifiers

PMID28768730
PMCPMC5625390
OpenAlexW2740736991

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Registered trials

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