Evidence map›Paper›PMID 17065617›Full record

ReviewAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2006

Impact of melanin on microbial virulence and clinical resistance to antimicrobial compounds.

Joshua D Nosanchuk, Arturo Casadevall

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In one paragraph

Review 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 201 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
201citing papers in PubMed
5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

201 citing papers in PubMed, 411 citations in OpenAlex.

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141 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Joshua D NosanchukDepartment of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA. nosanchu@aecom.yu.edu
Arturo Casadevall
Office of Infectious Diseases · US

Funding

Biology of Fungal MelaninR01AI052733 · NIAID · YESHIVA UNIVERSITY · PI CASADEVALL, ARTURO · 2003 to 2019
$6.6M
NIAID NIH HHS AI52733NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI052733
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Anti-Bacterial AgentsAntifungal AgentsBacteriaCell WallDrug Resistance, BacterialDrug Resistance, FungalFungiHumansMelaninsMicrobial Sensitivity TestsPorosityAnti-Bacterial AgentsAntifungal AgentsMelanins

Identifiers

PMID17065617
PMCPMC1635213
OpenAlexW2136984408

What OpenQuestion holds

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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.