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ArticleIDCases2021

Nocardiosis and elevated beta-d-glucan in solid organ transplant recipients.

Matthew Ringer, Christopher Radcliffe, Christopher A Kerantzas, Maricar Malinis, Marwan M Azar

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

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. 1,3-β-D-glucan testing for nocardiosis in solid organ transplant recipients.Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society · 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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Matthew RingerSection of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Christopher RadcliffeSection of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Christopher A KerantzasDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT, USA.
Maricar MalinisSection of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Marwan M AzarSection of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Yale University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Beta-D-glucan (BDG) testing can expedite the diagnosis of invasive fungal infections in immunocompromised hosts. Elevated BDG levels have been reported in both

Indexed as

Beta-D-glucanNocardiosisSolid organ transplantation

Identifiers

PMID34786341
PMCPMC8577490
OpenAlexW3209709250

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Registered trials

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