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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2018

Multicenter Evaluation of the Xpert MRSA NxG Assay for Detection of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Nasal Swabs.

Melanie L Yarbrough, David K Warren, Karen Allen, Dennis Burkholder, Robert Daum, Curtis Donskey, Dennis Knaack, Anthony LaMarca, Larissa May, Loren G Miller and 7 more

Open access · bronzeAbstract readEvaluation StudyMulticenter Study
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Misidentification of meticillin-resistantEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2021
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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

17 authors at 13 institutions in 3 countries.

Melanie L YarbroughDepartment of Pathology and Immunology, Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
David K WarrenDepartment of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Karen AllenUniversity of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.
Dennis BurkholderProMedica Laboratories, Toledo, Ohio, USA.
Robert DaumUniversity of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Curtis DonskeyLouis Stokes Cleveland DVA Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Dennis KnaackInstitut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Universitätsklinikum Münster, Münster, Germany.
Anthony LaMarcaTheraFirst Medical Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
Larissa MayUniversity of California-Davis, Sacramento, California, USA.
Loren G MillerDivision of Infectious Diseases, Los Angeles BioMedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA.
David M ParentiDivision of Infectious Disease, The George Washington School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA.
Lance PetersonNorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
Thean Yen TanDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Changi General Hospital, Singapore.
Raymond WidenTampa General Hospital, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Diana R HernandezGeisinger Clinic, Danville, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1377-4438
Donna M WolkGeisinger Clinic, Danville, Pennsylvania, USA.
C A BurnhamDepartment of Pathology and Immunology, Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA cburnham@wustl.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-1137-840X
Washington University in St. Louis · USGeisinger Medical Center · USChangi General Hospital · SGGeorge Washington University · USLouis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center · USNorthShore University HealthSystem · USTampa General Hospital · USTherafirst Medical Center · USUCLA Medical Center · USUniversity Hospital Münster · DEUniversity of California, Davis · USUniversity of Chicago · USUniversity of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Health care-associated methicillin-resistant

Indexed as

AdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overBacteriological TechniquesChildChild, PreschoolDNA, BacterialFemaleHumansMaleMethicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureusMiddle AgedNasal CavityPolymerase Chain ReactionReagent Kits, DiagnosticDNA, BacterialReagent Kits, Diagnosticbacterial colonizationmethicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusnasal swab

Identifiers

PMID29118165
PMCPMC5744196
OpenAlexW2767420140

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