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ArticleJournal of neurosciences in rural practice2013

Nosocomial Escherichia coli meningitis in adults: Report of four cases and literature review.

Fahmi Yousef Khan, Mohammed Abukhattab, Deshmukh Anand

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Article in Journal of neurosciences in rural practice, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 25% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Hawai'i journal of health & social welfare · 2021
    Article
  2. Escherichia coli: a rare cause of meningitis in immuno-competent adult.Journal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives · 2020
    Article
  3. Neuroinvasive Infection from O117:K52:H-Case reports in infectious diseases · 2017
    Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Fahmi Yousef KhanDepartment of Medicine, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
Mohammed Abukhattab
Deshmukh Anand
Hamad General Hospital · QA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report four cases of nosocomial E. coli meningitis, in male patients with accidental and neurosurgical trauma. The interval between accidents/neurosurgical procedures and the onset of meningitis was 2-15 days (mean 6.25 days). The most consistent clinical features were fever and deterioration of consciousness level. Emergence of extended spectrum beta lactamase E. coli strains had been observed in two (50%) of our cases and the mean duration of antimicrobial treatment was 16.5 days (range: 6-24 days). Two of the four patients (50%) died in the hospital.

Indexed as

E. colineurosurgical procedurenosocomial meningitis

Identifiers

PMID24250185
PMCPMC3821438
OpenAlexW2067973914

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