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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2021

Evaluation of the Performance of the Loopamp Trypanosoma cruzi Detection Kit for the Diagnosis of Chagas Disease in an Area Where It Is Not Endemic, Spain.

Maria D Flores-Chavez, Alba Abras, Cristina Ballart, Ismael Ibáñez Perez, Pilar Perez-Gordillo, Montserrat Gállego, Carmen Muñoz, Zaira Moure, Elena Sulleiro Igual, Javier Nieto and 3 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 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Frontiers in microbiology · 2024
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  5. Evaluation of the Chagas VirCliaPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 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

13 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Maria D Flores-Chavez *National Centre for Microbiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain delmansflores@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-2597-3100
Alba Abras *Secció de Parasitologia, Departament de Biologia, Sanitat i Medi Ambient, Facultat de Farmàcia i Ciències de l'Alimentació, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Cristina BallartSecció de Parasitologia, Departament de Biologia, Sanitat i Medi Ambient, Facultat de Farmàcia i Ciències de l'Alimentació, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Ismael Ibáñez PerezNational Centre for Microbiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Pilar Perez-GordilloNational Centre for Microbiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Montserrat GállegoSecció de Parasitologia, Departament de Biologia, Sanitat i Medi Ambient, Facultat de Farmàcia i Ciències de l'Alimentació, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Carmen MuñozServei de Microbiologia, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.
Zaira MoureHospital de la Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain.
Elena Sulleiro IgualHospital de la Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain.
Javier NietoNational Centre for Microbiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Emilia García DiezNational Centre for Microbiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Israel CruzNational School of Public Health, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Albert PicadoFoundation for Innovative New Diagnostics FIND, Geneva, Switzerland.
Instituto de Salud Carlos III · ESBarcelona Institute for Global Health · ESFIND · CHVall d'Hebron Hospital Universitari · ESUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona · ESUniversitat de Girona · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In Spain, PCR is the tool of choice for the diagnosis of congenital Chagas disease (CD) and serology for diagnosing chronic CD. A loop-mediated isothermal amplification test for

Indexed as

Chagas DiseaseTrypanosoma cruziChildHumansJapanMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesNucleic Acid Amplification TechniquesSensitivity and SpecificitySpainaccuracycongenital Chagas diseaseLAMPmolecular diagnosissensitivityspecificity

Identifiers

PMID33692137
PMCPMC8091841
OpenAlexW3134017445

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