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ArticleBioMed research international2019

Evaluation of RealStar®

Cyril C Y Yip, Siddharth Sridhar, Kit-Hang Leung, Andrew K W Cheng, Kwok-Hung Chan, Jasper F W Chan, Vincent C C Cheng, Kwok-Yung Yuen

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Article in BioMed research international, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 26% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Detection and Prevention of Virus Infection.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2022
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  4. Evaluation of the commercially available LightMix® Modular E-gene kit using clinical and proficiency testing specimens for SARS-CoV-2 detection.Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology · 2020
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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 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Cyril C Y YipDepartment of Microbiology, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9606-8506
Siddharth SridharDepartment of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Kit-Hang LeungDepartment of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Andrew K W ChengDepartment of Microbiology, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
Kwok-Hung ChanDepartment of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Jasper F W ChanDepartment of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Vincent C C ChengDepartment of Microbiology, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
Kwok-Yung YuenDepartment of Microbiology, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2083-1552
Queen Mary Hospital · CNUniversity of Hong Kong · HK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Several commercial PCR kits are available for detection of herpes simplex virus (HSV) and varicella zoster virus (VZV), but the test performance of one CE-marked in vitro diagnostic kit-RealStar®

Indexed as

DNA, ViralHerpes SimplexHerpesvirus 1, HumanHerpesvirus 2, HumanHerpesvirus 3, HumanHumansMultiplex Polymerase Chain ReactionReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionReproducibility of ResultsSensitivity and SpecificityDNA, Viral

Identifiers

PMID31687393
PMCPMC6803750
OpenAlexW2979357656

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