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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2021

Use of a Multiplex PCR Assay To Assess the Presence of Treponema pallidum in Mucocutaneous Ulcerations in Patients with Suspected Syphilis.

P A Grange, A Jary, C Isnard, S Burrel, D Boutolleau, A Touati, C Bébéar, J Saule, P Martinet, J-L Robert and 5 more

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 22% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 22 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

15 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

P A GrangeINSERM, Institut Cochin U1016-CNRS UMR8104, Université Sorbonne Paris Descartes, Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0003-1583-0456
A JarySorbonne Université, INSERM, Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique (iPLESP), Team 3 THERAVIR, Paris, France.
C IsnardService de Dermatologie-Vénéréologie et CeGIDD, Groupe Hospitalier APHP.5, CNR IST Bactériennes-Laboratoire associé Syphilis, Paris, France.
S BurrelSorbonne Université, INSERM, Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique (iPLESP), Team 3 THERAVIR, Paris, France.
D BoutolleauSorbonne Université, INSERM, Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique (iPLESP), Team 3 THERAVIR, Paris, France.
A TouatiUniversité de Bordeaux, USC EA3671, CHU de Bordeaux, CNR des IST Bactériennes, Bordeaux, France.
C BébéarUniversité de Bordeaux, USC EA3671, CHU de Bordeaux, CNR des IST Bactériennes, Bordeaux, France.
J SauleCeGIDD-Conseil Départemental 13 Joliette, Marseille, France.
P MartinetCeGIDD-Conseil Départemental 13 Saint Adrien, Marseille, France.
J-L RobertCeGIDD-Conseil Départemental 13 Saint Adrien, Marseille, France.
D MouleneCeGIDD-Conseil Départemental 13 d'Aix, Aix-en-Provence, France.
A Vermersch-LanglinService de Dermatologie, Hôpital Jean Bernard, Valenciennes, France.
N BenhaddouService de Bactériologie, Groupe Hospitalier APHP.5-CNR Streptocoques, Paris, France.
M JanierAPHP, Groupe Hospitalier Saint-Louis, Lariboisière, Fernand-Widal, CeGGID, Paris, France.
N DupinINSERM, Institut Cochin U1016-CNRS UMR8104, Université Sorbonne Paris Descartes, Paris, France nicolas.dupin@aphp.fr.ORCID 0000-0002-6237-4951
Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris · FRInserm · FRCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRUniversité de Bordeaux · FRCentre Jean Bernard · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We evaluated the utility of the commercial Allplex genital ulcer real-time PCR multiplex assay for detecting

Indexed as

SyphilisTreponema pallidumFranceHumansMultiplex Polymerase Chain ReactionParisUlcerdetectionmultiplex PCRsyphilisTreponema pallidum

Identifiers

PMID33177120
PMCPMC8111117
OpenAlexW3101902658

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