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ReviewPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2010

The Treatment of Melioidosis.

Timothy J J Inglis

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Review in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
26citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 18% 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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Article
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  5. Review
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Case of misdiagnosed melioidosis from Hue city, Vietnam.Iranian journal of microbiology · 2022
    Article
  9. Melioidosis: clinical aspects.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2022
    Article
  10. Characterization ofVeterinary world · 2020
    Article
  11. Article
  12. Human Melioidosis.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2020
    Review
  13. Article
  14. A review of melioidosis cases imported into Europe.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2019
    Review
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Article
  18. Melioidosis in Sri Lanka.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2018
    Article
  19. A case report of melioidosis complicated by infective sacroiliitis in Sri Lanka.Tropical diseases, travel medicine and vaccines · 2018
    Article
  20. 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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Timothy J J InglisDivision of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA, QEII Medical Centre, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia. tim.inglis@health.wa.gov.au.
Pathwest Laboratory Medicine · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Melioidosis is a complex bacterial infection, treatment of which combines the urgency of treating rapidly fatal Gram negative septicaemia with the need for eradication of long-term persistent disease in pulmonary, soft tissue, skeletal and other organ systems. Incremental improvements in treatment have been made as a result of multicentre collaboration across the main endemic region of Southeast Asia and northern Australia. There is an emerging consensus on the three main patterns of antimicrobial chemotherapy; initial (Phase 1) treatment, subsequent eradication (Phase 2) therapy and most recently post-exposure (Phase 0) prophylaxis. The combination of agents used, duration of therapy and need for adjunct modalities depends on the type, severity and antimicrobial susceptibility of infection. New antibiotic and adjunct therapies are at an investigational stage but on currently available data are unlikely to make a significant impact on this potentially fatal infection.

Indexed as

adjunct therapyantibioticsmelioidosistreatment

Identifiers

PMID27713302
PMCPMC4033981
OpenAlexW1996671220

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Registered trials

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