No SARS-CoV-2 in expressed prostatic secretion of patients with coronavirus disease 2019: a descriptive multicentre study in China

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   Jun 5, 2020

   SciScore for 10.1101/2020.03.26.20044198: (What is this?)

   Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

   Table 1: Rigor

   Institutional Review Board Statement	IRB: The study was approved by the ethics committee of each hospital (NYSZYYEC20200008, KY2020-022, 2020-005), and has been registered in Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (ChiCTR2000030756). Consent: The patient consent was obtained.
   Randomization	not detected.
   Blinding	not detected.
   Power Analysis	not detected.
   Sex as a biological variable	not detected.

   Table 2: Resources

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   Statistical analysis: SPSS software (version 20.0) was used for statistical analysis.	SPSS suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)

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   Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when …

   SciScore for 10.1101/2020.03.26.20044198: (What is this?)

   Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

   Table 1: Rigor

   Institutional Review Board Statement	IRB: The study was approved by the ethics committee of each hospital (NYSZYYEC20200008, KY2020-022, 2020-005), and has been registered in Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (ChiCTR2000030756). Consent: The patient consent was obtained.
   Randomization	not detected.
   Blinding	not detected.
   Power Analysis	not detected.
   Sex as a biological variable	not detected.

   Table 2: Resources

   Software and Algorithms
   Sentences	Resources
   Statistical analysis: SPSS software (version 20.0) was used for statistical analysis.	SPSS suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)

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   Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).

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   Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:

   However, some limitations should be noted. First, although those samples were collected from three medical centers with different prevalence rates, EPS were tested only in mild and common patients, excluding samples of severe patients. Second, semen samples were not obtained, due to some restrictions like non-private ward environment of mobile cabin hospitals, anxiety during isolation period, so the safety of sexual intercourse still remains to be known. Third, our sample size is relatively small, with only 60 cases. In the next study, large samples and long-term follow-up are needed to assess whether sexual intercourse is a potential route for virus transmission.

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   Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.

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   Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.

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   Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.

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   Results from rtransparent:

   • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
   • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
   • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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   Version published to 10.1101/2020.03.26.20044198v1 on medRxiv

   Mar 30, 2020