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ReviewF1000prime reports2014

Klebsiella: a long way to go towards understanding this enigmatic jet-setter.

Christopher A Broberg, Michelle Palacios, Virginia L Miller

Open access · bronzeAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in F1000prime reports, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 74 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
74citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

74 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 154 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Genome sequences of twoMicrobiology resource announcements · 2025
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  8. Detection of virulent Klebsiella pneumoniae strains causing intestinal and extraintestinal infections during the 80s and 90s in Brazil.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2024
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  9. Carbapenem-Resistant NDM and OXA-48-Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  10. Hypermucoviscous Carbapenem-ResistantInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  11. Eugenol eliminates carbapenem-resistantFrontiers in microbiology · 2023
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  12. A Comprehensive Genomic Analysis of the EmergentPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  16. Retrospective study of pneumonia in non-racing horses in California.Journal of veterinary diagnostic investigation : official publication of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Inc · 2022
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14 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christopher A BrobergDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 125 Mason Farm Road, 6101 Marsico Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7290 USA.
Michelle PalaciosDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 125 Mason Farm Road, 6101 Marsico Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7290 USA.
Virginia L MillerDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 125 Mason Farm Road, 6101 Marsico Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7290 USA ; Department of Genetics, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 120 Mason Farm Road, 5000D Genetic Medicine Building, CB#7264, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

INFECTIOUS DISEASE PATHOGENESIS TRAININGT32AI007151 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI JULIANO, JONATHAN J · 1985 to 2024
$5.5M
NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007151
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Klebsiella pneumoniae is the causative agent of a variety of diseases, including pneumonia, urinary tract infections, septicemia, and the recently recognized pyogenic liver abscesses (PLA). Renewed efforts to identify and understand the bacterial determinants required to cause disease have come about because of the worldwide increase in the isolation of strains resistant to a broad spectrum of antibiotics. The recent increased isolation of carbapenem-resistant strains further reduces the available treatment options. The rapid geographic spread of the resistant isolates and the spread to other pathogens are of particular concern. For many years, the best characterized virulence determinants were capsule, lipopolysaccharide, siderophores, and types 1 and 3 fimbriae. Recent efforts to expand this list include in vivo screens and whole-genome sequencing. However, we still know little about how this bacterium is able to cause disease. Some recent clonal analyses of K. pneumoniae strains indicate that there are distinct clonal groups, some of which may be associated with specific disease syndromes. However, what makes one clonal group more virulent and what changes the disease pattern are not yet clear and remain important questions for the future.

Identifiers

PMID25165563
PMCPMC4126530
OpenAlexW2131045898

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Registered trials

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