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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2016

Activity of Cysteamine against the Cystic Fibrosis Pathogen Burkholderia cepacia Complex.

Douglas Fraser-Pitt, Derry Mercer, Emma Lovie, Jennifer Robertson, Deborah O'Neil

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Biofilm formation of two genetically diverseFrontiers in microbiology · 2023
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  5. Cysteamine Inhibits Glycine Utilisation and Disrupts Virulence inFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021
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  6. Metabolomics profiling of tobacco exposure in children with cystic fibrosis.Journal of cystic fibrosis : official journal of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society · 2020
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  7. Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2019
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  12. Frontiers in microbiology · 2017
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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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Douglas Fraser-PittNovaBiotics Ltd., Craibstone, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, United Kingdom doug@novabiotics.co.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-2846-6772
Derry MercerNovaBiotics Ltd., Craibstone, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
Emma LovieNovaBiotics Ltd., Craibstone, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
Jennifer RobertsonNovaBiotics Ltd., Craibstone, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
Deborah O'NeilNovaBiotics Ltd., Craibstone, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
NovaBiotics (United Kingdom) · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There are no wholly successful chemotherapeutic strategies against Burkholderia cepacia complex (BCC) colonization in cystic fibrosis (CF). We assessed the impact of cysteamine (Lynovex) in combination with standard-of-care CF antibiotics in vitro against BCC CF isolates by the concentration at which 100% of bacteria were killed (MIC100) and checkerboard assays under CLSI standard conditions. Cysteamine facilitated the aminoglycoside-, fluoroquinolone- and folate pathway inhibitor-mediated killing of BCC organisms that were otherwise resistant or intermediately sensitive to these antibiotic classes. Slow-growing BCC strains are often recalcitrant to treatment and form biofilms. In assessing the impact of cysteamine on biofilms, we demonstrated inhibition of BCC biofilm formation at sub-MIC100s of cysteamine.

Indexed as

Anti-Bacterial AgentsBiofilmsBurkholderia cepacia complexCysteamineCystic FibrosisHumansMicrobial Sensitivity TestsTobramycinAnti-Bacterial AgentsCysteamineTobramycin

Identifiers

PMID27503654
PMCPMC5038277
OpenAlexW2496228312

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