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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2026

False-positive

Janelle Maskell, Michael O'Connor, Monica M Lahra, David M Whiley, Sebastiaan van Hal, Todd M Pryce

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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. Not yet cited 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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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.

Janelle MaskellMolecular Medicine, Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Michael O'ConnorMicrobiology and Infectious Diseases, Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Monica M LahraWorld Health Organization Collaborating Centre for STI and AMR, New South Wales Health Pathology, Microbiology, The Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia.
David M WhileyUQ Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-5969-3161
Sebastiaan van HalNew South Wales Health Pathology, Microbiology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-5852-4155
Todd M PrycePathWest Laboratory Medicine WA, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-5293-9795

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Abbott Alinity m STI assayfalse-positiveNeisseria gonorrhoeaeNeisseria meningitidis

Identifiers

PMID42283531
PMCPMC13343834

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.