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ArticleAmerican journal of translational research2020

Evaluation of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid combined with the loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay in lower respiratory tract infections.

Zaiqiang Wang, Yu Zang, Yanjun Gao, Luyao Han, Hongwei Lin, Yongheng Gao, Min Chen, Yurou Liu, Qian Zhang, Enqing Fu

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Article in American journal of translational research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zaiqiang WangDepartment of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University Xi'an 710038, P. R. China.
Yu ZangDepartment of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University Xi'an 710038, P. R. China.
Yanjun GaoDepartment of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University Xi'an 710038, P. R. China.
Luyao HanDepartment of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University Xi'an 710038, P. R. China.
Hongwei LinDepartment of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University Xi'an 710038, P. R. China.
Yongheng GaoDepartment of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University Xi'an 710038, P. R. China.
Min ChenDepartment of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University Xi'an 710038, P. R. China.
Yurou LiuDepartment of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University Xi'an 710038, P. R. China.
Qian ZhangDepartment of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University Xi'an 710038, P. R. China.
Enqing FuDepartment of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University Xi'an 710038, P. R. China.
People 's Liberation Army 451 Hospital · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The clinical application of the loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay has been problematic because of conflicting results obtained from the LAMP assay and bacterial culture. In order to eliminate the interference of oral microorganisms and more accurately evaluate the diagnostic performance of the LAMP assay, we utilized bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) as a sample to test whether the LAMP assay and bacteria culture yielded similar results. A total of 1092 BALF samples from patients with suspected lower respiratory tract infections were collected. For each sample, parallel studies using both bacterial culture and the LAMP assay were carried out. We were the first to utilize BALF as a sample to study the consistency between the LAMP assay and bacterial culture results. The present study demonstrated that the positive rate from the LAMP assay was higher than that from bacterial culture, and the two methods had a better consistency than previously reported.

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bacterial culturebronchoalveolar lavage fluidLoop-mediated isothermal amplificationlower respiratory infectionspathogens

Identifiers

PMID32774754
PMCPMC7407691
OpenAlexW3049609233

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