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ReviewInterdisciplinary perspectives on infectious diseases2014

Multidrug resistance: an emerging crisis.

Jyoti Tanwar, Shrayanee Das, Zeeshan Fatima, Saif Hameed

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Review in Interdisciplinary perspectives on infectious diseases, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 233 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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233citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

233 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  17. Bioactivity-Guided Isolation of Flavone Glycoside fromMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  19. Multidrug-resistantmSystems · 2025
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173 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.

Jyoti TanwarAmity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Haryana, Manesar, Gurgaon 122413, India.
Shrayanee DasAmity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Haryana, Manesar, Gurgaon 122413, India.ORCID 0000-0003-0529-8902
Zeeshan FatimaAmity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Haryana, Manesar, Gurgaon 122413, India.
Saif HameedAmity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Haryana, Manesar, Gurgaon 122413, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The resistance among various microbial species (infectious agents) to different antimicrobial drugs has emerged as a cause of public health threat all over the world at a terrifying rate. Due to the pacing advent of new resistance mechanisms and decrease in efficiency of treating common infectious diseases, it results in failure of microbial response to standard treatment, leading to prolonged illness, higher expenditures for health care, and an immense risk of death. Almost all the capable infecting agents (e.g., bacteria, fungi, virus, and parasite) have employed high levels of multidrug resistance (MDR) with enhanced morbidity and mortality; thus, they are referred to as "super bugs." Although the development of MDR is a natural phenomenon, the inappropriate use of antimicrobial drugs, inadequate sanitary conditions, inappropriate food-handling, and poor infection prevention and control practices contribute to emergence of and encourage the further spread of MDR. Considering the significance of MDR, this paper, emphasizes the problems associated with MDR and the need to understand its significance and mechanisms to combat microbial infections.

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PMID25140175
PMCPMC4124702

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