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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2014

First report of brain abscess caused by a satelliting phenotypic variant of Helcococcus kunzii.

Siddharth Sridhar, Jasper F W Chan, Kwok-Yung Yuen

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. BMJ case reports · 2021
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  7. BMJ case reports · 2017
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  8. In vitro antimicrobial susceptibility of Helcococcus kunzii and molecular analysis of macrolide and tetracycline resistance.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Siddharth SridharDepartment of Microbiology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
Jasper F W Chan
Kwok-Yung Yuen

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Helcococcus kunzii was isolated from a brain abscess in a diabetic patient with cholesteatoma and demonstrated satellitism around Staphylococcus aureus in culture. This is the first reported case of severe central nervous system infection due to H. kunzii and the first description of a satelliting phenotypic variant of this organism.

Indexed as

Aged, 80 and overBrainBrain AbscessCholesteatomaCluster AnalysisDiabetes ComplicationsDNA, BacterialDNA, RibosomalGram-Positive BacteriaGram-Positive Bacterial InfectionsHumansMaleMolecular Sequence DataPhylogenyRNA, Ribosomal, 16SSequence Analysis, DNADNA, BacterialDNA, RibosomalRNA, Ribosomal, 16S

Identifiers

PMID24172152
PMCPMC3911449

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