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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2005

Clonal spread of a Clostridium difficile strain with a complete set of toxin A, toxin B, and binary toxin genes among Polish patients with Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea.

Hanna Pituch, Deborah Kreft, Piotr Obuch-Woszczatynski, Dorota Wultańska, Felicja Meisel-Mikołajczyk, Mirosław Łuczak, Alex van Belkum

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Hanna PituchDepartment of Medical Microbiology, The Medical University of Warsaw, 5 Chalubinski Street, 02-004 Warsaw, Poland. hanna.pituch@ib.amwaw.edu.pl
Deborah Kreft
Piotr Obuch-Woszczatynski
Dorota Wultańska
Felicja Meisel-Mikołajczyk
Mirosław Łuczak
Alex van Belkum
Medical University of Warsaw · PLErasmus MC · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clinically relevant Clostridium difficile strains usually produce toxins A and B. Some C. difficile strains can produce an additional binary toxin. We report clonality among five strains carrying all toxin genes from Polish patients with C. difficile-associated diarrhea. In another strain, possible recombination between binary toxin genes is documented.

Indexed as

Genetic VariationAdolescentAdultBacterial ProteinsBacterial ToxinsBase SequenceChildChild, PreschoolClostridioides difficileDiarrheaEnterocolitis, PseudomembranousEnterotoxinsHumansMolecular Sequence DataPolandPolymerase Chain ReactionBacterial ProteinsBacterial ToxinsEnterotoxinstcdA protein, Clostridium difficiletoxB protein, Clostridium difficile

Identifiers

PMID15635019
PMCPMC540144
OpenAlexW2080594197

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