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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021

Is the New Interferon-Gamma Releasing Assay Beneficial for the Diagnosis of Latent and Active

Jaewan Jung, Byung Woo Jhun, Mijeong Jeong, Sun Joo Yoon, Hee Jae Huh, Chul Won Jung, Kihyun Kim, Jae Berm Park, Dae Joong Kim, Wooseong Huh and 5 more

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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10citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 27% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Diagnostic Performance of New Commercial Interferon-Gamma Release Assays for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2026
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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Jaewan JungDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-0569-696X
Byung Woo JhunDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea.
Mijeong JeongResearch Institute for Future Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea.
Sun Joo YoonDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea.
Hee Jae HuhDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea.
Chul Won JungDivision of Hematology-Oncology, Samsung Medical Center, Sunghyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea.
Kihyun KimDivision of Hematology-Oncology, Samsung Medical Center, Sunghyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea.
Jae Berm ParkDepartment of Transplantation Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-9117-2278
Dae Joong KimDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea.
Wooseong HuhDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea.
Hye Ryoun JangDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea.
Young-Ho KimDivision of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea.
Sung Noh HongDivision of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea.
Doo Ryeon ChungDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea.
Eun-Suk KangDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-6386-6520
Samsung Medical Center · KR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Interferon-Gamma Release Assays (IGRAs) are widely used in the laboratory diagnosis of

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active tuberculosisIGRAinterferon-gammaintracellular cytokine stainingLTBIMycobacterium tuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID33805448
PMCPMC8036413
OpenAlexW3152319956

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