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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2015

Two Rapidly Growing Mycobacterial Species Isolated from a Brain Abscess: First Whole-Genome Sequences of Mycobacterium immunogenum and Mycobacterium llatzerense.

Alexander L Greninger, Charles Langelier, Gail Cunningham, Chris Keh, Michael Melgar, Charles Y Chiu, Steve Miller

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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34citing papers in PubMed
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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

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

34 citing papers in PubMed, 50 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

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alexander L GreningerDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, San Francisco, California, USA.
Charles LangelierDepartment of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
Gail CunninghamDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
Chris KehDepartment of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
Michael MelgarDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Charles Y ChiuDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, San Francisco, California, USA Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
Steve MillerDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, San Francisco, California, USA Steve.Miller@ucsfmedctr.org.
University of California, San Francisco · USAbbott (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rapidly growing mycobacteria are rarely found in central nervous system infections. We describe a case of polymicrobial infection in a brain abscess including two rapidly growing Mycobacterium species, M. immunogenum and M. llatzerense. The Mycobacterium isolates were distinguishable by molecular methods, and whole-genome sequencing showed <60% pairwise nucleotide identity.

Indexed as

Genome, BacterialSequence Analysis, DNAAdultBrain AbscessCoinfectionFemaleHeadHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMolecular Sequence DataMycobacterium Infections, NontuberculousNontuberculous MycobacteriaRadiographySequence Homology, Nucleic Acid

Identifiers

PMID25926490
PMCPMC4473206
OpenAlexW2077851644

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