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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2020

Evaluation of the BioFire FilmArray Pneumonia Panel for Detection of Viral and Bacterial Pathogens in Lower Respiratory Tract Specimens in the Setting of a Tertiary Care Academic Medical Center.

Daniel M Webber, Meghan A Wallace, C A Burnham, Neil W Anderson

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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 72 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

72 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Daniel M WebberDivision of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6109-8118
Meghan A WallaceDivision of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
C A BurnhamDivision of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA cburnham@wustl.edu nwanderson@wustl.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-1137-840X
Neil W AndersonDivision of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA cburnham@wustl.edu nwanderson@wustl.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Our objective was to evaluate the diagnostic yield and accuracy of the BioFire FilmArray pneumonia panel (BFPP) for identification of pathogens in lower respiratory tract specimens (

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PneumoniaRespiratory Tract InfectionsAcademic Medical CentersBacteriaHumansMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesStaphylococcus aureusTertiary Health CareBioFirepneumoniaquantitative PCRsyndromic testing

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PMID32321782
PMCPMC7315030

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