Review of the pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, and clinical use of cephalosporins.

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.

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.

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Treatment of enteric fever (typhoid and paratyphoid fever) with cephalosporins.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022
   Pooled it
2. Systemic antibiotic prophylaxis in arthroplasty - a narrative review of how many doses are optimal.EFORT open reviews · 2024
   Review
3. Cefotaxime Versus Ceftriaxone: A Comprehensive Comparative Review.Cureus · 2024
   Review
4. Clinical effectiveness of beta-lactams versus fluoroquinolones as empirical therapy in patients with diabetes mellitus hospitalized for urinary tract infections: A retrospective cohort study.PloS one · 2022
   Article
5. Small Molecule Sensors Targeting the Bacterial Cell Wall.ACS infectious diseases · 2020
   Review
6. Antibiotic-induced microbiome perturbations are associated with significant alterations to colonic mucosal immunity in rhesus macaques.Mucosal immunology · 2020
   Article
7. Role of cephalosporins in the era of Clostridium difficile infection.The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy · 2017
   Review
8. Beneficial antimicrobial effect of the addition of an aminoglycoside to a β-lactam antibiotic in an E. coli porcine intensive care severe sepsis model.PloS one · 2014
   Article
9. Prophylactic antibiotics and wound infection.Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR · 2013
   Article
10. An audit of prophylactic surgical antibiotic use in a Sudanese Teaching Hospital.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2013
    Article
11. Pharmacological properties of parenteral cephalosporins: rationale for ambulatory use.Drugs · 2000
    Review

Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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