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ArticleThe Lancet. Infectious diseases2021

Negative antigen RDT and RT-PCR results do not rule out COVID-19 if clinical suspicion is strong - Authors' reply.

Nadia Mandeng, Karl Njuwa Fai, Lisa M Bebell, Yap Boum

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Article in The Lancet. Infectious diseases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Nadia MandengCentre de Coordination des Opérations d'Urgence de Santé Publique, Ministère de la Santé Publique, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Karl Njuwa FaiEpicentre, Médecins Sans Frontières, Yaoundé BP 12069, Cameroon.
Lisa M BebellMassachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Yap BoumEpicentre, Médecins Sans Frontières, Yaoundé BP 12069, Cameroon; University of Yaoundé I, Faculty of Medicine, Yaoundé, Cameroon. Electronic address: yap.boum@epicentre.msf.org.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19Antigens, ViralHumansReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionSARS-CoV-2Sensitivity and SpecificityAntigens, Viral

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PMID34058129
PMCPMC8163293

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