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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2018

Accuracy of High-Throughput Nanofluidic PCR-Based Pneumococcal Serotyping and Quantification Assays Using Sputum Samples for Diagnosing Vaccine Serotype Pneumococcal Pneumonia: Analyses by Composite Diagnostic Standards and Bayesian Latent Class Models.

Satoshi Kakiuchi, Motoi Suzuki, Bhim Gopal Dhoubhadel, Akitsugu Furumoto, Hiroyuki Ito, Kei Matsuki, Yoshiko Tsuchihashi, Norichika Asoh, Michio Yasunami, Koya Ariyoshi and 1 more

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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 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Satoshi KakiuchiDepartment of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
Motoi SuzukiDepartment of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
Bhim Gopal DhoubhadelSchool of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
Akitsugu FurumotoDepartment of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
Hiroyuki ItoDepartment of Internal Medicine, Juzenkai Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan.
Kei MatsukiDepartment of Internal Medicine, Juzenkai Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan.
Yoshiko TsuchihashiDepartment of Internal Medicine, Juzenkai Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan.
Norichika AsohDepartment of Internal Medicine, Juzenkai Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan.
Michio YasunamiSchool of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
Koya AriyoshiDepartment of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
Konosuke MorimotoDepartment of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan komorimo@nagasaki-u.ac.jp.
Nagasaki University · JPYokufukai Hospital · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The lack of reliable diagnostic tests for detecting vaccine serotype pneumococcal pneumonia (VTPP) remains a challenging issue in pneumococcal vaccine studies. This study assessed the performances of high-throughput nanofluidic PCR-based pneumococcal serotyping and quantification assay methods using sputum samples (the nanofluidic sputum quantitative PCR [Sp-qPCR] assay) to diagnose 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate VTPP compared with the performance of the serotype-specific urinary antigen detection (UAD) assay using urine samples. Adult pneumonia patients from Japan were enrolled in this study between September 2012 and August 2014. Sputum samples were subjected to the nanofluidic Sp-qPCR assay, quantitatively cultured, and serotyped by the Quellung reaction (SpQt). Urine samples were tested by the UAD method. The diagnostic performances of these tests were assessed using composite reference standards and Bayesian latent class models (BLCMs). Among 244 total patients, 27 (11.1%) tested positive with the UAD assay, while 16 (6.6%) and 34 (13.9%) tested positive with the SpQt and nanofluidic Sp-qPCR assays, respectively, with a cutoff value of ≥10

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MicrofluidicsAdultAgedAged, 80 and overAntigens, BacterialBayes TheoremFemaleHumansJapanLatent Class AnalysisMaleMiddle AgedPneumococcal VaccinesPneumonia, PneumococcalPrevalenceProspective StudiesAntigens, BacterialPneumococcal Vaccinesadult pneumoniaBayesian latent class modelssputum culturesputum real-time PCRStreptococcus pneumoniaeurinary antigen detection

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PMCPMC5925721
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