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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2026

Throat and rectal swabs to diagnose melioidosis: utility or futility?

Robert C Duguid, Robert W Baird, Jann Hennessy, Bart J Currie, Ella M Meumann

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers 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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Robert C DuguidDepartment of Paediatrics, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-7582-6603
Robert W BairdMicrobiology Department, Territory Pathology, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-2006-5277
Jann HennessyMicrobiology Department, Territory Pathology, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Australia.
Bart J CurrieDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Division of Medicine, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Australia.
Ella M MeumannMicrobiology Department, Territory Pathology, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-7993-820X

Funding

National Health and Medical Research Council 2041264
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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melioidosis

Identifiers

PMID42132431
PMCPMC13251406

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