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ReviewNature reviews. Genetics2010

The population genetics of antibiotic resistance: integrating molecular mechanisms and treatment contexts.

R Craig MacLean, Alex R Hall, Gabriel G Perron, Angus Buckling

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Review in Nature reviews. Genetics, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 120 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
120citing papers in PubMed
8.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

120 citing papers in PubMed, 249 citations in OpenAlex.

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60 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

R Craig MacLeanDepartment of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK. craig.maclean@zoo.ox.ac.uk
Alex R Hall
Gabriel G Perron
Angus Buckling
University of Oxford · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite efforts from a range of disciplines, our ability to predict and combat the evolution of antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria is limited. This is because resistance evolution involves a complex interplay between the specific drug, bacterial genetics and both natural and treatment ecology. Incorporating details of the molecular mechanisms of drug resistance and ecology into evolutionary models has proved useful in predicting the dynamics of resistance evolution. However, putting these models to practical use will require extensive collaboration between mathematicians, molecular biologists, evolutionary ecologists and clinicians.

Indexed as

AnimalsAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial InfectionsDrug Resistance, BacterialEvolution, MolecularGenetics, PopulationHumansModels, BiologicalSignal TransductionSystems IntegrationAnti-Bacterial Agents

Identifiers

PMID20479772
OpenAlexW2028553878

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