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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2003

Soft tissue infection caused by a novel pigmented, rapidly growing mycobacterium species.

Christine Y Turenne, Amar A Suchak, Joyce N Wolfe, Amin Kabani, Lindsay E Nicolle

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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 5 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

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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

5 authors.

Christine Y TurenneNational Reference Centre for Mycobacteriology, National Microbiology Laboratory, Health Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. cturenne@hc-sc.gc.ca
Amar A Suchak
Joyce N Wolfe
Amin Kabani
Lindsay E Nicolle

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Molecular techniques are playing an important role in the diagnosis of nontuberculous mycobacterial infections. This case report describes a chronic soft tissue infection in an immunocompetent patient caused by a previously undescribed pigmented, rapidly growing Mycobacterium species, emphasizing the importance of clinical suspicion and effective laboratory techniques in the diagnosis and treatment of infection.

Indexed as

AdultBacterial Typing TechniquesDNA, RibosomalHumansMaleMolecular Sequence DataMycobacteriumMycobacterium InfectionsPigments, BiologicalRNA, Ribosomal, 16SSequence Analysis, DNASoft Tissue InfectionsDNA, RibosomalPigments, BiologicalRNA, Ribosomal, 16S

Identifiers

PMID12791930
PMCPMC156523

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