Iron chelation directed against biofilms as an adjunct to conventional antibiotics.

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

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Mechanisms and Therapeutic Potential of Nutritional Immunity.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
   Review
2. The dual implications of iron homeostasis as a bacterial threat: its roles in virulence and antimicrobial resistance.Archives of microbiology · 2025
   Review
3. Fighting microbial pathogens by integrating host ecosystem interactions and evolution.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2021
   Article
4. Tuning the Anti(myco)bacterial Activity of 3-Hydroxy-4-pyridinone Chelators through Fluorophores.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018
   Review
5. Evaluation of Gallium Citrate Formulations against a Multidrug-Resistant Strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae in a Murine Wound Model of Infection.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2015
   Article
6. Applying insights from biofilm biology to drug development - can a new approach be developed?Nature reviews. Drug discovery · 2013
   Review
7. Inhibiting biofilm formation by Klebsiella pneumoniae B5055 using an iron antagonizing molecule and a bacteriophage.BMC microbiology · 2013
   Article
8. Hacking into bacterial biofilms: a new therapeutic challenge.Annals of intensive care · 2011
   Article

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  The DeltaF508-CFTR mutation results in increased biofilm formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa by increasing iron availability.2008

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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