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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2018

Retrospective Review of Treponema pallidum PCR and Serology Results: Are Both Tests Necessary?

Anna Brischetto, Ian Gassiep, David Whiley, Robert Norton

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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.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Laboratory Evaluation of the Chembio DPP Syphilis Screen & Confirm Point-of-Care Test on Serum and Simulated Blood Samples.Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada · 2024
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  3. Detection of Treponema pallidum DNA During Early Syphilis Stages in Peripheral Blood, Oropharynx, Ano-Rectum and Urine as a Proxy for Transmissibility.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2022
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  4. The Laboratory Diagnosis of Syphilis.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2021
    Review
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  6. PCR detection for syphilis diagnosis: Status and prospects.Journal of clinical laboratory analysis · 2019
    Review
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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Anna BrischettoDepartment of Microbiology, Pathology Queensland, Townsville, Australia anna.brischetto@gmail.com.
Ian GassiepDepartment of Microbiology, Pathology Queensland, Townsville, Australia.
David WhileyDepartment of Microbiology, Pathology Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Robert NortonDepartment of Microbiology, Pathology Queensland, Townsville, Australia.
Townsville Hospital · AUUniversity of Queensland · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There has been a resurgence of syphilis diagnoses in Australia. We investigated whether our

Indexed as

AdultAustraliaFemaleHumansMalePolymerase Chain ReactionRetrospective StudiesSensitivity and SpecificitySyphilisSyphilis SerodiagnosisTreponema pallidumYoung AdultdiagnosisPCRserologysyphilis

Identifiers

PMID29444835
PMCPMC5925717
OpenAlexW2793353714

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Registered trials

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