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ReviewJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Identification of Mycoses in Developing Countries.

Amir Arastehfar, Brian L Wickes, Macit Ilkit, David H Pincus, Farnaz Daneshnia, Weihua Pan, Wenjie Fang, Teun Boekhout

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Review in Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
34citing papers in PubMed
6.1field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

34 citing papers in PubMed, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Amir ArastehfarWesterdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, 3584 CT Utrecht, The Netherlands. a.arastehfar@wi.knaw.nl.ORCID 0000-0002-4361-4841
Brian L WickesThe Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA. wickes@uthscsa.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-5909-5815
Macit IlkitDivision of Mycology, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Çukurova, Adana 01330, Turkey. macitilkit@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-1174-4182
David H PincusbioMérieux, Inc., Hazelwood, MO 63042, USA. dave.pincus@biomerieux.com.
Farnaz DaneshniaWesterdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, 3584 CT Utrecht, The Netherlands. f.daneshnia@wi.knaw.nl.ORCID 0000-0002-8782-2036
Weihua PanDepartment of Dermatology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Medical Mycology, Shanghai Institute of Medical Mycology, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200003, China. panweihua@smmu.edu.cn.
Wenjie FangDepartment of Dermatology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Medical Mycology, Shanghai Institute of Medical Mycology, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200003, China. fangwenjie1990@126.com.
Teun BoekhoutWesterdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, 3584 CT Utrecht, The Netherlands. t.boekhout@wi.knaw.nl.
Second Military Medical University · CNWesterdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute · NLbioMérieux (United States) · USCukurova University · TRThe University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extensive advances in technology offer a vast variety of diagnostic methods that save time and costs, but identification of fungal species causing human infections remains challenging in developing countries. Since the echinocandins, antifungals widely used to treat invasive mycoses, are still unavailable in developing countries where a considerable number of problematic fungal species are present, rapid and reliable identification is of paramount importance. Unaffordability, large footprints, lack of skilled personnel, and high costs associated with maintenance and infrastructure are the main factors precluding the establishment of high-precision technologies that can replace inexpensive yet time-consuming and inaccurate phenotypic methods. In addition, point-of-care lateral flow assay tests are available for the diagnosis of

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molecular toolsNanopore sequencingphenotypic assaysserology

Identifiers

PMID31569472
PMCPMC6958481
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