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ArticleViruses2024

Clinical Evaluation of the BIOFIRE SPOTFIRE Respiratory Panel.

Wai-Sing Chan, Christy Wing-Yiu Ho, Tsz-Ching Chan, Jeffrey Hung, Man-Yan To, Sau-Man Leung, Ka-Chun Lai, Ching-Yan Wong, Chin-Pang Leung, Chun-Hang Au and 4 more

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Article in Viruses, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

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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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Wai-Sing ChanDepartment of Pathology, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Christy Wing-Yiu HoDepartment of Pathology, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Tsz-Ching ChanDepartment of Pathology, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Jeffrey HungDepartment of Pathology, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Man-Yan ToDepartment of Pathology, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Sau-Man LeungDepartment of Pathology, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Ka-Chun LaiDepartment of Pathology, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Ching-Yan WongDepartment of Pathology, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Chin-Pang LeungDepartment of Pathology, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Chun-Hang AuDepartment of Pathology, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Thomas Shek-Kong WanDepartment of Pathology, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Jonpaul Sze-Tsing ZeeDepartment of Pathology, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Edmond Shiu-Kwan MaDepartment of Pathology, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1259-2205
Bone Siu-Fai TangDepartment of Pathology, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital · HK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The BIOFIRE SPOTFIRE Respiratory (R) Panel is a novel, in vitro diagnostic PCR assay with 15 pathogen targets. The runtime is about 15 min which is the shortest among similar panels in the market. We evaluated the performance of the SPOTFIRE R Panel with 151 specimens, including 133 collected from the upper respiratory tract (URT), 13 from the lower respiratory tract (LRT) and 5 external quality assessment program (EQAP) samples. The respiratory specimens were enrolled throughout the first two post-COVID-19 influenza seasons in Hong Kong (March to December 2023). For URT specimens, full concordance was observed between the SPOTFIRE R Panel and the standard-of-care FilmArray Respiratory 2.1

Indexed as

COVID-19Respiratory Tract InfectionsSARS-CoV-2COVID-19 Nucleic Acid TestingHong KongHumansMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesSensitivity and SpecificityBIOFIREFilmArrayfluPCRrespiratorySARS-CoV-2SPOTFIRETORCH

Identifiers

PMID38675941
PMCPMC11055108
OpenAlexW4394806598

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