HSV type specific antibody tests: patients are ready, are clinicians?

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.

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.

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

1. The psychosocial impact of serological diagnosis of asymptomatic herpes simplex virus type 2 infection.Sexually transmitted infections · 2006
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2. Is HSV serology useful for the management of first episode genital herpes?Sexually transmitted infections · 2003
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3. The acceptability of the introduction of a type specific herpes antibody screening test into a genitourinary medicine clinic in the United Kingdom.Sexually transmitted infections · 2003
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4. Sorting out the new HSV type specific antibody tests.Sexually transmitted infections · 2001
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5. Comparison of a monoclonal antibody-blocking enzyme-linked immunoassay and a strip immunoblot assay for identifying type-specific herpes simplex virus type 2 serological responses.Clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology · 2000
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6. The burden of infection with HSV-1 and HSV-2 in England and Wales: implications for the changing epidemiology of genital herpes.Sexually transmitted infections · 2000
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7. British Co-operative Clinical Group national survey on diagnostic issues surrounding genital herpes. MSSVD Special Interest Group on Genital Herpes and the British Co-operative Clinical Group.Sexually transmitted infections · 1999
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8. Sexually transmitted infections.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1998
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Psychological factors in recurrent genital herpes.1997
• Comment on
  Patient attitudes to type specific serological tests in the diagnosis of genital herpes.1997
• Comment on
  Are reported stress and coping style associated with frequent recurrence of genital herpes?1997

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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