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ReviewFrontiers in medicine2026

No culture? No problem: Clinical utility and pitfalls of non-culture diagnostics for pneumococcal parapneumonic effusions.

Ilias E Dimeas, Georgios-Andreas A Kiousis, Cormac McCarthy, Zoe Daniil

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Review in Frontiers in medicine, 2026. 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

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Ilias E Dimeas *Department of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Biopolis, Larissa, Greece.
Georgios-Andreas A Kiousis *Department of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Biopolis, Larissa, Greece.
Cormac McCarthySchool of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Zoe DaniilDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Biopolis, Larissa, Greece.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Community acquired pneumonia is the primary cause of hospital admission and the most common infectious cause of mortality in developed countries, with parapneumonic effusion and empyema representing frequent complications. Because

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empyemanext-generation sequencing (NGS)non-culture diagnosticsparapneumonic effusionpleural fluid antigen detectionpolymerase chain reaction (PCR)Streptococcus pneumoniaeurinary antigen test

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PMID41626230
PMCPMC12852352

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