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ArticleCurrent infectious disease reports2010

β-Lactamase-Producing Bacteria in Upper Respiratory Tract Infections.

Itzhak Brook

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Article in Current infectious disease reports, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 40% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Deep neck infections: a study of 365 cases highlighting recommendations for management and treatment.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2012
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5 · Who and what money

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1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Itzhak BrookDepartment of Pediatrics, Georgetown University School of Medicine, 4431 Albemarle Street NW, Washington, DC, 20016, USA, ib6@georgetown.edu.
Georgetown University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

β-Lactamase-producing bacteria (BLPB) can play an important role in respiratory infections. They can have a direct pathogenic impact in causing the infection as well as an indirect effect through their ability to produce the enzyme β-lactamase. BLPB not only may survive penicillin therapy, but as demonstrated by in vitro and in vivo studies, can also protect other penicillin-susceptible bacteria from penicillin by releasing the free enzyme into their environment. The clinical in vitro and in vivo evidence supporting the role of these organisms in the increased failure rate of penicillin in eradication of these infections and the implication of that increased rate on the management of infections is discussed.

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PMID21308507
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