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ReviewMicrosystems & nanoengineering2021

The electrochemical detection of bioterrorism agents: a review of the detection, diagnostics, and implementation of sensors in biosafety programs for Class A bioweapons.

Connor O'Brien, Kathleen Varty, Anna Ignaszak

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Review in Microsystems & nanoengineering, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 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

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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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. 2D Material-Based Optical Biosensor: Status and Prospect.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2022
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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

3 authors.

Connor O'BrienDepartment of Chemistry, University of New Brunswick, 30 Dineen Drive, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3 Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-8387-3787
Kathleen VartyDepartment of Chemistry, University of New Brunswick, 30 Dineen Drive, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3 Canada.
Anna IgnaszakDepartment of Chemistry, University of New Brunswick, 30 Dineen Drive, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3 Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During the past year, disease has shown us the iron grip it can hold over a population of people. Health systems can be overwhelmed, economies can be brought into recession, and many people can be harmed or killed. When weaponized, diseases can be manipulated to create a detriment to health while becoming an economic burden on any society. It is consequently prudent that easy detection of bioweapons is available to governments for protecting their people. Electrochemical sensing displays many distinct advantages, such as its low limit of detection, low cost to run, rapid generation of results, and in many instances portability. We therefore present a wide array of electrochemical sensing platforms currently being fabricated, a brief summary of Class A bioweapons, and the potential future of bioweapon detection and biosafety.

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BiosensorsChemistryElectronic properties and materials

Identifiers

PMID33585038
PMCPMC7872827

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