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ArticlePathogens (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Reply to Shah, J.S.; Ramasamy, R. Target Antigens in Western and Line Immunoblots for Supporting the Diagnosis of Lyme Disease. Comment on "Porwancher et al. Immunoblot Criteria for Diagnosis of Lyme Disease: A Comparison of CDC Criteria to Alternative Interpretive Approaches.

Richard Porwancher, Andrew Levin, Rosalie Trevejo

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Article in Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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

3 authors.

Richard PorwancherSection of Allergy, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4152-4383
Andrew LevinKephera Diagnostics, LLC, Framingham, MA 01702, USA.
Rosalie TrevejoAcute and Communicable Disease Prevention, Oregon Health Authority, Portland, OR 97232, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We are writing in response to comments made by Shah and Ramasamy [...].

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Lyme DiseaseBlotting, WesternBorrelia burgdorferiCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.United States

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PMID38787205
PMCPMC11124438

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