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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2017

Evaluation of the cobas Cdiff Test for Detection of Toxigenic Clostridium difficile in Stool Samples.

Lance R Peterson, Stephen A Young, Thomas E Davis, Zi-Xuam Wang, John Duncan, Christopher Noutsios, Oliver Liesenfeld, John C Osiecki, Michael A Lewinski

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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 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  7. Laboratory Tests for the Diagnosis ofClinics in colon and rectal surgery · 2020
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  11. Equivalent Performance of the CobasEuropean journal of microbiology & immunology · 2017
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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

9 authors.

Lance R PetersonDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, USA lance1@uchicago.edu.
Stephen A YoungDepartment of Pathology, University of New Mexico HSC, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
Thomas E DavisDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Zi-Xuam WangThomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
John DuncanMedical and Scientific Affairs, Roche Molecular Diagnostics, Pleasanton, California, USA.
Christopher NoutsiosMedical and Scientific Affairs, Roche Molecular Diagnostics, Pleasanton, California, USA.
Oliver LiesenfeldMedical and Scientific Affairs, Roche Molecular Diagnostics, Pleasanton, California, USA.
John C OsieckiMedical and Scientific Affairs, Roche Molecular Diagnostics, Pleasanton, California, USA.
Michael A LewinskiMedical and Scientific Affairs, Roche Molecular Diagnostics, Pleasanton, California, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) are reliable tools for the detection of toxigenic

Indexed as

AdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overBacterial ToxinsChildChild, PreschoolClostridioides difficileClostridium InfectionsFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesNucleic Acid Amplification TechniquesProspective StudiesBacterial Toxinsactive surveillance testing (AST)Clostridium difficile infection (CDI)health care-associated infectionnucleic acid amplification testtoxin B (tcdB) gene

Identifiers

PMID28954901
PMCPMC5703809

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