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ArticleJournal of medical microbiology2024

Evaluation of GeneXpert MTB/Rif Ultra assay performance on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues for

Calvin Ka-Fung Lo, Dale Purych, Inna Sekirov, Jaswinder Khattra, Trevor J Hird, Shazia Masud

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Article in Journal of medical microbiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

6 authors.

Calvin Ka-Fung LoDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Dale PurychDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Inna SekirovDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Jaswinder KhattraDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Surrey Memorial Hospital, Fraser Health, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
Trevor J HirdBC Centre for Disease Control, Public Health Laboratory, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Shazia MasudDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We evaluated the Xpert MTB/Rif Ultra assay performance for

Indexed as

FormaldehydeMycobacterium tuberculosisParaffin EmbeddingSensitivity and SpecificityHumansMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesPolymerase Chain ReactionTissue FixationTuberculosisFormaldehydeextra-pulmonaryformalin-fixed tissueMTBMycobacterium tuberculosisresistance screeningXpert Ultra

Identifiers

PMID39436387
PMCPMC11495408

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