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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2018

Utility of a Stressed Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Real-Time PCR Assay for Rapid Identification of Measles Vaccine Strains in Patient Samples.

Thomas Tran, Renata Kostecki, Michael Catton, Julian Druce

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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 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Measles vaccine virus mutation following vaccination in a healthy child resulting in a false negative vaccine specific PCR test: Ontario, Canada, 2025.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2025
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  2. Development of real-time RT-PCR assays to detect measles virus on the Hologic Panther Fusion® System.Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Thomas TranRegional and National Measles Reference Laboratory, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Melbourne, Australia thomas.tran@mh.org.au julian.druce@mh.org.au.
Renata KosteckiRegional and National Measles Reference Laboratory, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Melbourne, Australia.
Michael CattonRegional and National Measles Reference Laboratory, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Melbourne, Australia.
Julian DruceRegional and National Measles Reference Laboratory, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Melbourne, Australia thomas.tran@mh.org.au julian.druce@mh.org.au.
Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rapid differentiation of wild-type measles virus from measles vaccine strains is crucial during a measles outbreak and in a measles elimination setting. A real-time reverse transcription-PCR (rRT-PCR) for the rapid detection of measles vaccine strains was developed with high specificity and sensitivity equivalent to that of traditional measles genotyping methods. The "stressed" minor groove binder-TaqMan probe design approach achieves specificity to vaccine strains only, without compromising sensitivity. This assay, without requiring sequence genotyping, has proved to be extremely useful in outbreak settings for over 4 years at the Regional Measles Reference Laboratory for the Western Pacific Region.

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Real-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionDisease OutbreaksGenotypeGenotyping TechniquesHumansMeaslesMeasles VaccineMeasles virusNucleocapsid ProteinsPacific StatesPolymorphism, Single NucleotideReproducibility of ResultsSensitivity and SpecificityMeasles VaccineNucleocapsid Proteinsmeaslesmeasles outbreakmeasles real-time PCRmeasles vaccinemeasles vaccine real-time PCR

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PMID29743309
PMCPMC6062778
OpenAlexW2802901900

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