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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2018

Potential Point-of-Care Testing for Dengue Virus in the Field.

Wei-Kung Wang, Duane J Gubler

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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 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Wei-Kung WangDepartment of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA wangwk@hawaii.edu.
Duane J GublerProgram on Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore.
Duke-NUS Medical School · SGUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · US

Funding

Mature virus-like particles as a new strategy for dengue virus vaccinesR01AI110769 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA · PI WANG, WEI-KUNG · 2014 to 2018
$1.5M
Multiplex Serodiagnostic Assays for Pathogenic Arboviruses in BrazilR01AI149502 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA · PI WANG, WEI-KUNG · 2020 to 2023
$624k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI110769NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI149502
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The four serotypes of dengue virus (DENV) cause one of the most important and rapidly emerging mosquito-borne viral diseases in humans. Of the currently available diagnostic tests for dengue, the reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) assay is the most sensitive and specific, and so it is commonly used as the gold standard. However, the requirement of a sophisticated and expensive thermal cycler makes it very difficult to use as a point-of-care diagnostic test in resource-limited regions where dengue is endemic. Tsai et al. (J Clin Microbiol 56:e01865-17, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01865-17) report the analytical and clinical performances of a reverse transcription-insulated isothermal PCR (RT-iiPCR) assay with a portable nucleic acid analyzer for rapid detection of the four DENV serotypes; its reproducibility and complete agreement on clinical samples with the multiplex RT-PCR assay developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest that the dengue RT-iiPCR is a potential point-of-care test. Compared with other DENV RNA detection methods, the unique isothermal PCR design of RT-iiPCR, together with further improvements, would represent a promising new type of field-deployable diagnostic test for dengue.

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Point-of-Care TestingDengueDengue VirusHumansMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesPolymerase Chain ReactionReproducibility of Results

Identifiers

PMID29514934
PMCPMC5925702
OpenAlexW2790314856

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