Evidence map›Paper›PMID 15215091›Full record

ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2004

Factors associated with relative rates of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates tested in clinical laboratories in the United States from 1999 to 2002.

Robert K Flamm, Mellany K Weaver, Clyde Thornsberry, Mark E Jones, James A Karlowsky, Daniel F Sahm

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
36citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

36 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Control of theJournal of bacteriology · 2025
    Article
  2. An analysis of the value-added of antibiogram subgroup stratification.Annals of clinical microbiology and antimicrobials · 2025
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Development of Biocompatible GaAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
    Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Aii810, a Novel Cold-AdaptedFrontiers in microbiology · 2017
    Article
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Activity of pyocin S2 against Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2012
    Article
  18. Article
  19. Review
  20. Article
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.

Robert K FlammFocus Technologies, 13665 Dulles Technology Drive, Suite 200, Herndon, VA 20171-4603, USA. rkflamm@focustechnologies.com
Mellany K Weaver
Clyde Thornsberry
Mark E Jones
James A Karlowsky
Daniel F Sahm

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For the period from 1999 to 2002 in the United States, the in vitro susceptibilities of 52,637 Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates to 10 antimicrobial agents were evaluated. The isolates were from 29 laboratories, 11 of which participated in The Surveillance Network for four consecutive years. Isolates were collected from adult patients (> or =18 years of age) in intensive care units (ICU), non-ICU inpatients, nursing home patients, and outpatients; data were analyzed to evaluate factors, such as year of isolation, patient age group, isolate specimen source, and patient type (hospitalized patients [ICU, non-ICU, or nursing home] or outpatients). Rates of resistance for the 4-year period were highest for isolates from patients in ICU and 18- to 39-year-old patients and for isolates from the lower respiratory tract. Resistance decreased with age. Resistance was lowest in isolates from outpatients, in isolates from > or =70-year-old patients, and from specimens from the upper respiratory tract. Multidrug resistance (MDR) (resistance to three or more antimicrobial agents) accounted for 24.9% of all isolates. The MDR rate was highest in isolates from patients in nursing homes (29.9%) and ICU (29.5%).

Indexed as

AdultAge FactorsAnti-Bacterial AgentsDrug Resistance, Multiple, BacterialGenes, MDRHospitalsHumansIntensive Care UnitsMicrobial Sensitivity TestsNursing HomesPhenotypePopulation SurveillancePseudomonas aeruginosaPseudomonas InfectionsRespiratory Tract InfectionsUnited StatesAnti-Bacterial Agents

Identifiers

PMID15215091
PMCPMC434174

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

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.