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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2018

Clinical Assessment of a Nocardia PCR-Based Assay for Diagnosis of Nocardiosis.

Claire Rouzaud, Véronica Rodriguez-Nava, Emilie Catherinot, Frédéric Méchaï, Emmanuelle Bergeron, Eric Farfour, Anne Scemla, Sylvain Poirée, Christophe Delavaud, Daniel Mathieu and 7 more

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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 39 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
39citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
14.0field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

39 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 11 institutions in 2 countries.

Claire RouzaudUniversité Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, AP-HP, Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades, Centre d'Infectiologie Necker-Pasteur and Institut Imagine, Paris, France.
Véronica Rodriguez-NavaResearch Group on Bacterial Opportunistic Pathogens and Environment, UMR CNRS5557, INRA1418 Ecologie Microbienne, French Observatory of Nocardiosis, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Université de Lyon 1, VetAgro Sup, Lyon, France.
Emilie CatherinotHôpital Foch, Service de Pneumologie, Suresnes, France.
Frédéric MéchaïHôpital Avicenne, AP-HP, Service de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Bobigny, France.
Emmanuelle BergeronResearch Group on Bacterial Opportunistic Pathogens and Environment, UMR CNRS5557, INRA1418 Ecologie Microbienne, French Observatory of Nocardiosis, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Université de Lyon 1, VetAgro Sup, Lyon, France.
Eric FarfourHôpital Foch, Service de Microbiologie, Suresnes, France.
Anne ScemlaHôpital Necker Enfants Malades, Service de Transplantation Rénale, Paris, France.
Sylvain PoiréeHôpital Necker Enfants Malades, Service de Radiologie, Paris, France.
Christophe DelavaudHôpital Necker Enfants Malades, Service de Radiologie, Paris, France.
Daniel MathieuCentre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille, Pôle de Réanimation, Lille, France.
Stéphane DuruptCentre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud, Service de Médecine Interne, Centre de Référence de la Mucoviscidose, Centre Adulte de Ressource et de Compétences de la Mucoviscidose, Pierre-Bénite, France.
Fabrice LarosaCentre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besançon, Département d'Hématologie, Besançon, France.
Jean-Philippe LengeléGrand Hôpital de Charleroi, Service de Néphrologie, Charleroi, Belgium.
Jean-Louis ChristopheGrand Hôpital de Charleroi, Service de Néphrologie, Charleroi, Belgium.
Felipe SuarezUniversité Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, AP-HP, Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades, Service d'Hématologie, Paris, France.
Olivier LortholaryUniversité Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, AP-HP, Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades, Centre d'Infectiologie Necker-Pasteur and Institut Imagine, Paris, France.
David LebeauxUniversité Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, AP-HP, Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades, Centre d'Infectiologie Necker-Pasteur and Institut Imagine, Paris, France david.lebeaux@yahoo.fr.
Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades · FRGrand Charleroi Hospital · BEHôpital Foch · FRSorbonne Paris Cité · FRCentre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besançon · FRCentre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille · FRHôpital Avicenne · FRHôpital Lyon Sud · FRUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1 · FRUniversité Paris Cité · FRVetAgro Sup · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The diagnosis of nocardiosis, a severe opportunistic infection, is challenging. We assessed the specificity and sensitivity of a 16S rRNA

Indexed as

AdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overChildChild, PreschoolColony Count, MicrobialFemaleHospitalizationHumansImmunocompromised HostLung DiseasesMaleMiddle AgedNocardiaNocardia InfectionsRNA, Ribosomal, 16Simmunocompromised hostsNocardianocardiosisopportunistic infectionsPCR

Identifiers

PMID29563199
PMCPMC5971555
OpenAlexW2792880890

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