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ArticleDigestive diseases and sciences2020

Gastrointestinal Infections in IBD Flares: Can PCR-Based Stool Tests Differentiate the Smoke from the Fire?

Jordan E Axelrad, Jenny S Sauk

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Article in Digestive diseases and sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 55% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Stool multiplex PCR assay versus conventional stool tests for detecting gastrointestinal infection as a cause for flare of inflammatory bowel disease.Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology · 2026
    Article
  2. Microorganisms · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jordan E AxelradInflammatory Bowel Disease Center at NYU Langone Health, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. Jordan.Axelrad@nyulangone.org.
Jenny S SaukUCLA Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine At UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
NYU Langone Health · USOlive View-UCLA Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Gastrointestinal DiseasesInflammatory Bowel DiseasesHumansPolymerase Chain ReactionPrevalenceSmokeSmoke

Identifiers

PMID32212019
OpenAlexW3013668001

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.