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ArticleEuropean journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology2018

Evaluation of IVD 3.0 Vitek MS matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry for identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and nontuberculous mycobacteria and its use in routine diagnostics.

Elio Cenci, Eugenio Luciano, Marika Bucaioni, Monica Rubeca, Angelica Cesarini, Silvia Bozza, Giuseppe Vittorio De Socio, Antonella Mencacci

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Article in European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Diagnostic performance of MALDI-TOF MS for non-tuberculous mycobacteria: A systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2026
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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

8 authors.

Elio CenciMedical Microbiology Section, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Pz.le Menghini 1, 06129, Perugia, Italy. elio.cenci@unipg.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0752-7262
Eugenio LucianoMedical Microbiology Section, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Pz.le Menghini 1, 06129, Perugia, Italy.
Marika BucaioniMicrobiology, Regional Reference Mycobacteria Laboratory, Perugia General Hospital, Perugia, Italy.
Monica RubecaMicrobiology, Regional Reference Mycobacteria Laboratory, Perugia General Hospital, Perugia, Italy.
Angelica CesariniMicrobiology, Regional Reference Mycobacteria Laboratory, Perugia General Hospital, Perugia, Italy.
Silvia BozzaMedical Microbiology Section, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Pz.le Menghini 1, 06129, Perugia, Italy.
Giuseppe Vittorio De SocioInfectious Diseases Unit, Perugia General Hospital, Perugia, Italy.
Antonella MencacciMedical Microbiology Section, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Pz.le Menghini 1, 06129, Perugia, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-IonizationBacteriological TechniquesCulture MediaDiagnostic Tests, RoutineHumansMycobacterium InfectionsMycobacterium tuberculosisNontuberculous MycobacteriaSensitivity and SpecificityCulture Media

Identifiers

PMID30008125

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