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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2003

Neonatal sudden death due to Legionella pneumonia associated with water birth in a domestic spa bath.

Takuhito Nagai, Hisanori Sobajima, Mitsuji Iwasa, Toyonori Tsuzuki, Fumiaki Kura, Junko Amemura-Maekawa, Haruo Watanabe

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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 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. Severe Pneumonia in Neonates Associated withPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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  5. Legionellosis in Japan: A Self-inflicted Wound?Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2021
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  7. Water and air ozone treatment as an alternative sanitizing technology.Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2017
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  13. Underwater birth and neonatal respiratory distress.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2005
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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

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Takuhito NagaiDepartment of Pediatrics, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya 466-8650, Japan.
Hisanori Sobajima
Mitsuji Iwasa
Toyonori Tsuzuki
Fumiaki Kura
Junko Amemura-Maekawa
Haruo Watanabe
National Institute of Infectious Diseases · JPJapanese Red Cross Nagoya Daini Hospital · JPRed Cross Hospital · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report the first case of neonatal Legionnaires' disease associated with water birth in a spa bath at home. Legionella pneumophila serogroup 6 was detected from postmortem lung tissue.

Indexed as

Water MicrobiologyBase SequenceDeath, SuddenDNA, BacterialFemaleHumansHydrotherapyInfant, NewbornJapanLegionella pneumophilaLegionnaires' DiseaseLungPregnancyDNA, Bacterial

Identifiers

PMID12734286
PMCPMC154682
OpenAlexW2087443786

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