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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2003

Culture-negative childhood empyema is usually due to penicillin-sensitive Streptococcus pneumoniae capsular serotype 1.

Gary Eltringham, Angela Kearns, Roger Freeman, Julia Clark, David Spencer, Katherine Eastham, Jayne Harwood, John Leeming

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Pneumococcal empyema and complicated pneumonias: global trends in incidence, prevalence, and serotype epidemiology.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2014
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  10. Increasing incidence of empyema complicating childhood community-acquired pneumonia in the United States.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2010
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  17. Multicentre study of the molecular epidemiology, serotypes and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae invasive isolated from children in the Ille de France area.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2004
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  19. Empyema thoracis: not time to put down the knife.Archives of disease in childhood · 2003
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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

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Gary Eltringham
Angela Kearns
Roger Freeman
Julia Clark
David Spencer
Katherine Eastham
Jayne Harwood
John Leeming
North Tyneside General Hospital · GBFreeman Hospital · GBBristol Royal Infirmary · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AdolescentCell Culture TechniquesChildChild, PreschoolEmpyemaFemaleHumansInfantMaleMicrobial Sensitivity TestsPenicillinsSerotypingStreptococcus pneumoniaePenicillins

Identifiers

PMID12517914
PMCPMC149645
OpenAlexW2086221242

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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 OpenQuestion graph.