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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2020

Fast, Simple, and Cheap: the Kudoh-Ogawa Swab Method as an Alternative to the Petroff-Lowenstein-Jensen Method for Culturing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Greta Franco-Sotomayor, Ismar A Rivera-Olivero, Margarita Leon-Benitez, Sandra E Uruchima-Campoverde, Greta Cardenas-Franco, Mercedes E Perdomo-Castro, Camilo S Cardenas-Franco, Jackeline Ortega-Vivanco, Ana S Abad-Ruiz, Jacobus H de Waard and 1 more

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 36% 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 24 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

11 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Greta Franco-SotomayorInstituto Nacional de Salud Pública e Investigación Leopoldo Izquieta Pérez, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Ismar A Rivera-OliveroOne Health Research Group, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.ORCID 0000-0001-8345-8217
Margarita Leon-BenitezInstituto Nacional de Salud Pública e Investigación Leopoldo Izquieta Pérez, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Sandra E Uruchima-CampoverdeInstituto Nacional de Salud Pública e Investigación Leopoldo Izquieta Pérez, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Greta Cardenas-FrancoInstituto Nacional de Salud Pública e Investigación Leopoldo Izquieta Pérez, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Mercedes E Perdomo-CastroInstituto Nacional de Salud Pública e Investigación Leopoldo Izquieta Pérez, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Camilo S Cardenas-FrancoInstituto Nacional de Salud Pública e Investigación Leopoldo Izquieta Pérez, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Jackeline Ortega-VivancoInstituto Nacional de Salud Pública e Investigación Leopoldo Izquieta Pérez, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Ana S Abad-RuizInstituto Nacional de Salud Pública e Investigación Leopoldo Izquieta Pérez, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Jacobus H de WaardOne Health Research Group, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador jacobusdeward@gmail.com magbereguiain@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-4118-1015
Miguel Angel Garcia-BereguiainOne Health Research Group, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador jacobusdeward@gmail.com magbereguiain@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-0025-3609
Instituto Nacional de Investigación en Salud Pública · ECUniversidad de Las Américas · ECUniversity of Guayaquil · ECUniversidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil · EC

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The objective of this study was to compare the diagnostic yield of the Kudoh-Ogawa (K-O) swab method for the culturing of

Indexed as

Mycobacterium tuberculosisBacteriological TechniquesCulture MediaHumansSpecimen HandlingSputumCulture MediaculturediagnosisEcuadorKudoh-Ogawa swab methodLowenstein-JensenMycobacterium tuberculosisPetroff decontaminationtuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID32024726
PMCPMC7098767
OpenAlexW3004440892

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