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ArticleHRB open research2021

Concordance between PCR-based extraction-free saliva and nasopharyngeal swabs for SARS-CoV-2 testing.

Chiara De Santi, Benson Jacob, Patricia Kroich, Sean Doyle, Rebecca Ward, Brian Li, Owain Donnelly, Amy Dykes, Trisha Neelakant, David Neary and 12 more

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Article in HRB open research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Saliva as a Biological Fluid in SARS-CoV-2 Detection.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  6. Scalable solutions for global health: the SalivaDirect model.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2024
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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

22 authors.

Chiara De SantiSchool of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3856-0858
Benson JacobDepartment of International Health and Tropical Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Patricia KroichSchool of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5074-9317
Sean DoyleDepartment of International Health and Tropical Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3381-3318
Rebecca WardSchool of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2957-8642
Brian LiSchool of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Owain DonnellyDepartment of International Health and Tropical Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5813-3314
Amy DykesDepartment of International Health and Tropical Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2573-9760
Trisha NeelakantDepartment of International Health and Tropical Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
David NearyDepartment of International Health and Tropical Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6631-9215
Ross McGuinnessDepartment of International Health and Tropical Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3811-1174
Jacqueline CafferkeyDepartment of Microbiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Kieran RyanDepartment of Surgical Affairs, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Veronica QuaduMercer's Medical Centre, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Killian McGroganMercer's Medical Centre, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Alejandro Garcia LeonCentre for Experimental Pathogen Host Research (CEPHR), University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Patrick MallonCentre for Experimental Pathogen Host Research (CEPHR), University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Fidelma FitzpatrickDepartment of Microbiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3204-5962
Hilary HumphreysDepartment of Microbiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Eoghan De Barra *Department of International Health and Tropical Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Steve W Kerrigan *School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Gianpiero L Cavalleri *School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9802-0506

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Nasopharyngeal swabsRT-qPCRSalivaSalivaDirectSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID34522839
PMCPMC8408542.2

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