Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29618500›Full record

ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2018

Comparison of Manual and Fully Automated AIX1000 Rapid Plasma Reagin Assays for Laboratory Diagnosis of Syphilis.

Alan M Sanfilippo, Kristie Freeman, John L Schmitz

Open access · bronzeAbstract readComparative StudyEvaluation Study
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 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 28% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. CDC Laboratory Recommendations for Syphilis Testing, United States, 2024.MMWR. Recommendations and reports : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Recommendations and reports · 2024
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alan M SanfilippoMcLendon Clinical Laboratories, University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Kristie FreemanMcLendon Clinical Laboratories, University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
John L SchmitzMcLendon Clinical Laboratories, University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA John.Schmitz@unchealth.unc.edu.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USUniversity of North Carolina Hospitals · US

Funding

Virology, Immunology, and Microbiology CoreP30AI050410 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DAVID M. MARGOLIS · 2001 to 2026
$76.9M
NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI050410
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The analytical performance of the AIX1000 system, a fully automated and recently FDA-cleared rapid plasma reagin (RPR) system, was evaluated by comparison to a manual RPR test in a traditional syphilis testing algorithm. A total of 1,028 consecutive serum samples submitted for syphilis testing to the University of North Carolina Hospitals Clinical Immunology Laboratory were tested per each manufacturer's instructions. Among those samples, 996 were nonreactive and 20 were reactive using both the ASI RPR card system and the AIX1000 system. Of the 12 discrepant specimens, 11 were AIX1000 reactive and ASI card nonreactive whereas 1 specimen was ASI card reactive and AIX1000 nonreactive. The sensitivity and specificity of the manual ASI card were 76.0% and 99.8%, respectively, while the sensitivity and specificity of the AIX100 were 100.0% and 99.4%, respectively (sensitivity

Indexed as

Antibodies, BacterialAutomation, LaboratoryHumansReagent Kits, DiagnosticReaginsReproducibility of ResultsSensitivity and SpecificitySyphilisSyphilis SerodiagnosisTreponema pallidumAntibodies, BacterialReagent Kits, DiagnosticReaginsAIX1000RPRsyphilis

Identifiers

PMID29618500
PMCPMC6062780
OpenAlexW2794534599

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.