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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2018

Cryptococcal Antigen Screening in Asymptomatic HIV-Infected Antiretroviral Naïve Patients in Cameroon and Evaluation of the New Semi-Quantitative Biosynex CryptoPS Test.

Elvis Temfack, Charles Kouanfack, Leonella Mossiang, Angela Loyse, Marie C Fonkoua, Síle F Molloy, Sinata Koulla-Shiro, Eric Delaporte, Françoise Dromer, Thomas Harrison and 1 more

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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26citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
5.0field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Invasive Fungal Diseases in Africa: A Critical Literature Review.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  9. Cryptococcal andOpen forum infectious diseases · 2022
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  13. Comparison of two commercial tests (Immy vs. Dynamiker) for cryptococcal capsular antigen.Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical · 2021
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  16. Cryptococcal-related Mortality Despite Fluconazole Preemptive Treatment in a Cryptococcal Antigen Screen-and-Treat Program.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2020
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  18. New Insights Into Cryptococcus Spp. Biology and Cryptococcal Meningitis.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2019
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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

11 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Elvis TemfackInstitut Pasteur, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité de Mycologie Moléculaire, UMR 2000, Paris, France.
Charles KouanfackDay Hospital, Yaoundé Central Hospital, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Leonella MossiangDay Hospital, Yaoundé Central Hospital, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Angela LoyseCentre for Global Health, Institute for Infection and Immunity, St George's, University of London, London, United Kingdom.
Marie C FonkouaMicrobiology Unit, Centre Pasteur du Cameroun, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Síle F MolloyCentre for Global Health, Institute for Infection and Immunity, St George's, University of London, London, United Kingdom.
Sinata Koulla-ShiroDay Hospital, Yaoundé Central Hospital, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Eric DelaporteCameroon Site, French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis, Yaounde, Cameroun.
Françoise DromerInstitut Pasteur, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité de Mycologie Moléculaire, UMR 2000, Paris, France.
Thomas HarrisonCentre for Global Health, Institute for Infection and Immunity, St George's, University of London, London, United Kingdom.
Olivier LortholaryInstitut Pasteur, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité de Mycologie Moléculaire, UMR 2000, Paris, France.
Central Hospital of Yaoundé · CMSt George's, University of London · GBInstitut Pasteur · FRCentre Pasteur du Cameroun · CMUniversité de Montpellier · FRUniversité Paris Cité · FR

Funding

Medical Research Council G1100814
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

cryptococcal antigencryptococcosislateral flow assaypoint of carescreening

Identifiers

PMID29593675
PMCPMC5859387
OpenAlexW2790980679

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