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ReviewNew microbes and new infections2020

Diagnosis of COVID-19: facts and challenges.

H H Zalzala

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Review in New microbes and new infections, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 20% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. COVID-19 Diagnostics: A Panoramic View on Its Present Scenario, Challenges and Solutions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India. Section B · 2022
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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

H H ZalzalaDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, HLA Typing Research Unit, University of Baghdad, Al-Kindy College of Medicine, Baghdad, Iraq.
University of Baghdad · IQ

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

At the end of 2019, the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in Wuhan, China, then spread rapidly across the country and throughout the world. The causative agent is severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2); according to the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, this virus has a nucleic acid sequence that is different from other known coronaviruses but has some similarity to the beta coronavirus identified in bats. Coronaviruses are a large virus group of enveloped positive-sense single-stranded RNA. They are divided into four genera-alpha, beta, delta and gamma-and alpha and beta coronaviruses are known to infect humans. Rapid and early diagnosis of COVID-19 is a challenging issue for physicians and other healthcare personnel. The sensitivity and specificity of the clinical, radiologic and laboratory tests used to diagnose COVID-19 are variable and largely differ in efficacy depending on the disease's stage of presentation.

Indexed as

COVID-19CRISPRELISALAMPlateral flow immunoassayPCRSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32953123
PMCPMC7492157
OpenAlexW3086422157

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Registered trials

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