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ArticleFuture medicinal chemistry2021

COVID-19 screening in a healthcare or community setting: complexity of saliva as a specimen for PCR-based testing.

Nikhil Shri Sahajpal, Ashis K Mondal, Allan Njau, Sudha Ananth, Salil Ghamande, Madhuri Hegde, Alka Chaubey, Amyn M Rojiani, Ravindra Kolhe

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Article in Future medicinal chemistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Vitamin DFrontiers in oral health · 2026
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  4. Mouth Washing Impaired SARS-CoV-2 Detection in Saliva.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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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

9 authors.

Nikhil Shri SahajpalDepartment of Pathology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA.
Ashis K MondalDepartment of Pathology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA.
Allan NjauDepartment of Pathology, Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya.
Sudha AnanthDepartment of Pathology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA.
Salil GhamandeUniversity of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
Madhuri HegdePerkinElmer Genomics, Duluth, GA, USA.
Alka ChaubeyPerkinElmer Genomics, Duluth, GA, USA.
Amyn M RojianiDepartment of Pathology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA.
Ravindra KolheDepartment of Pathology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Residence CharacteristicsCOVID-19 Nucleic Acid TestingDelivery of Health CareHealth PersonnelHumansMass ScreeningSalivacommunityCOVID-19diagnosticshealthcarePCR testsaliva

Identifiers

PMID33228389
PMCPMC7684981

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