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ArticleJournal of global infectious diseases

A Novel Scoring System Approach to Assess Patients with Lyme Disease (Nutech Functional Score).

Geeta Shroff, Petra Hopf-Seidel

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Article in Journal of global infectious diseases. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 54% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Microbes and Mental Illness: Past, Present, and Future.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Geeta ShroffDirector, Nutech Mediworld, New Delhi, India.
Petra Hopf-SeidelNeurologist and Psychiatrist, Expert for Lyme Disease, Ansbach, Germany.
Ansbach University of Applied Sciences · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionA bacterial infection by METHODOLOGY: Nutech functional Score (NFS), which is a 43 point positional (every symptom is subgraded and each alternative gets some points according to its position) and directional (moves in direction bad to good) scoring system that assesses the patient's condition.

resultsThe grades of the scoring system have been converted into numeric values for conducting probability based studies. Each symptom is graded from 1 to 5 that runs in direction BAD → GOOD.

conclusionNFS is a unique tool that can be used universally to assess the condition of patients with LD.

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Borrelia burgdorferi-antibodieshuman embryonic stem cellsLyme diseaseNutech functional score

Identifiers

PMID29563715
PMCPMC5850763
OpenAlexW2791236069

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