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ArticleThe Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale

Fournier's gangrene caused by Listeria monocytogenes as the primary organism.

Sayaka Asahata, Yuji Hirai, Yusuke Ainoda, Takahiro Fujita, Yumiko Okada, Ken Kikuchi

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Article in The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sayaka AsahataDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Women's Medical University;
Yuji HiraiDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Women's Medical University;
Yusuke AinodaDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Women's Medical University;
Takahiro FujitaDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Women's Medical University;
Yumiko OkadaDivision of Biomedical Food Research, National Institute of Health Sciences, Tokyo, Japan.
Ken KikuchiDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Women's Medical University;
Tokyo Women's Medical University · JPNational Institute of Health Sciences · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 70-year-old man with a history of tongue cancer presented with Fournier's gangrene caused by Listeria monocytogenes serotype 4b. Surgical debridement revealed undiagnosed rectal adenocarcinoma. The patient did not have an apparent dietary or travel history but reported daily consumption of sashimi (raw fish). Old age and immunodeficiency due to rectal adenocarcinoma may have supported the direct invasion of L monocytogenes from the tumour. The present article describes the first reported case of Fournier's gangrene caused by L monocytogenes. The authors suggest that raw ready-to-eat seafood consumption be recognized as a risk factor for listeriosis, especially in cases of skin and soft tissue infection.

Indexed as

Fournier’s gangreneListeria monocytogenesRaw ready-toeat foodRectal carcinoma

Identifiers

PMID25798155
PMCPMC4353270
OpenAlexW2232612976

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