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ReviewFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology2020

Laboratory Diagnostic Tools for Syphilis: Current Status and Future Prospects.

Yuting Luo, Yafeng Xie, Yongjian Xiao

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Review in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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52citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
8.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

52 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 101 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. High rates of Treponema pallidum, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, or Trichomonas vaginalis co-infection in people with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2025
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  6. High Prevalence of Haemophilus ducreyi Among Patients With Suspected Primary syphilis in Malawi, 2019-2022.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2026
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  10. Comparison between treponemal and non-treponemal tests for syphilis detectionBiomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud · 2025
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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yuting LuoDepartment of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of University of South China, Hengyang, China.
Yafeng XieDepartment of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of University of South China, Hengyang, China.
Yongjian XiaoDepartment of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of University of South China, Hengyang, China.
University of South China · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the increasing number of patients infected with syphilis in the past 20 years, early diagnosis and early treatment are essential to decline syphilis prevalence. Owing to its diverse manifestations, which may occur in other infections, the disease often makes clinicians confused. Therefore, a sensitive method for detecting

Indexed as

SyphilisAnimalsHumansLaboratoriesPolymerase Chain ReactionRabbitsSerologic TestsTreponema pallidumimmunohistochemistrylaboratory diagnosisnucleic acid amplification techniquepolymerase chain reactionseroassaysyphilis

Identifiers

PMID33628742
PMCPMC7897658
OpenAlexW3128846585

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