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ArticleJournal of medical microbiology2021

Validation of saliva sampling as an alternative to oro-nasopharyngeal swab for detection of SARS-CoV-2 using unextracted rRT-PCR with the Allplex 2019-nCoV assay.

Marco Andres Bergevin, Wesley Freppel, Guylaine Robert, Georges Ambaraghassi, Dany Aubry, Olivier Haeck, Maude Saint-Jean, Alex Carignan

Open access · hybridAbstract readValidation Study
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of medical microbiology, 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.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 28% 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, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Natural spring water gargle and direct RT-PCR for the diagnosis of COVID-19 (COVID-SPRING study).Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology · 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

8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Marco Andres BergevinDepartment of Medical Biology, Hôpital Cité-de-la-Santé, Laval, QC H7M 3L9, Canada.
Wesley FreppelInstitut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Laval, Quebec, Canada.
Guylaine RobertDepartment of Medical Biology, Hôpital Cité-de-la-Santé, Laval, QC H7M 3L9, Canada.
Georges AmbaraghassiDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Dany AubryOptilab Laval-Laurentides-Lanaudière, Quebec, Canada.
Olivier HaeckDepartment of Medical Biology, Hôpital Cité-de-la-Santé, Laval, QC H7M 3L9, Canada.
Maude Saint-JeanDepartment of Medical Biology, Hôpital Cité-de-la-Santé, Laval, QC H7M 3L9, Canada.
Alex CarignanDepartment of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences de la Santé, Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
Centre Intégré de Santé et de Services Sociaux des Laurentides · CAInstitut National de la Recherche Scientifique · CAUniversité de Montréal · CAUniversité de Sherbrooke · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19 Nucleic Acid TestingAdultAgedChildCOVID-19FemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNasopharynxOropharynxProspective StudiesReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA, ViralSalivaSARS-CoV-2RNA, ViraldetectionRT-PCRsalivaSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID34369860
PMCPMC8513629
OpenAlexW3188017990

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Registered trials

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