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ArticleClinical case reports2015

Imaging characteristics of disseminated Geosmithia argillacea causing severe diskospondylitis and meningoencephalomyelitis in a dog.

Lukas T Kawalilak, Annie V Chen, Greg R Roberts

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Article in Clinical case reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 32% 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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. SystemicMedical mycology case reports · 2026
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  3. DisseminatedMedical mycology case reports · 2024
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  4. Sternal Abnormalities on Thoracic Radiographs of Dogs and Cats.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023
    Article
  5. Article
  6. Therapy of Non-Dermatophytic Mycoses in Animals.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018
    Review
  7. Article
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.

Lukas T KawalilakVeterinary Clinical Sciences, Washington State University 99164-7010, Pullman, Washington.
Annie V ChenVeterinary Clinical Sciences, Washington State University 99164-7010, Pullman, Washington.
Greg R RobertsVeterinary Clinical Sciences, Washington State University 99164-7010, Pullman, Washington.
Washington State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 4-year-old male castrated Labrador Retriever presented for severe spinal pain. Radiographs and magnetic resonance imaging showed evidence of diskospondylitis and meningoencephalomyelitis. Blood culture revealed a Geosmithia argillacea fungal infection after DNA sequencing, initially misdiagnosed as Penicillium species. Geosmithia argillacea should be considered as a differential for disseminated fungal diskospondylitis.

Indexed as

FungalMRIPenicillium sp

Identifiers

PMID26576269
PMCPMC4641471
OpenAlexW2133304104

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