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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2006

Pentamidine is active in a neutropenic murine model of acute invasive pulmonary fusariosis.

Michail S Lionakis, Georgios Chamilos, Russell E Lewis, Nathan P Wiederhold, Issam I Raad, George Samonis, Dimitrios P Kontoyiannis

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 41% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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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.

Michail S LionakisDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Employee Health, Unit 402, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
Georgios Chamilos
Russell E Lewis
Nathan P Wiederhold
Issam I Raad
George Samonis
Dimitrios P Kontoyiannis
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · USUniversity of Crete · GRUniversity of Houston · US

Funding

Tumor Evolution and Metastasis ProgramP30CA016672 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI Scott Kopetz · 1985 to 2026
$290.8M
NCI NIH HHS CA 16672NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016672
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We studied the efficacy of pentamidine (PNT) as prophylaxis or early treatment in acute pulmonary fusariosis in neutropenic mice. PNT-preexposed mice had significantly improved survival and reduced fungal burden compared to amphotericin B-preexposed and untreated mice. PNT-treated mice had increased survival but no difference in fungal burden versus untreated mice.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntifungal AgentsDisease Models, AnimalFusariumLung Diseases, FungalMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMicrobial Sensitivity TestsNeutropeniaOpportunistic InfectionsPentamidineAntifungal AgentsPentamidine

Identifiers

PMID16377700
PMCPMC1346817
OpenAlexW2105256542

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