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ArticleAntimicrobial resistance and infection control2016

First hospital outbreak of the globally emerging

Silke Schelenz, Ferry Hagen, Johanna L Rhodes, Alireza Abdolrasouli, Anuradha Chowdhary, Anne Hall, Lisa Ryan, Joanne Shackleton, Richard Trimlett, Jacques F Meis and 2 more

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Article in Antimicrobial resistance and infection control, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 403 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
403citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
55.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

403 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 749 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

12 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Silke SchelenzDepartment of Microbiology, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK ; Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College School of Public Health, St Mary's Campus, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0108-4619
Ferry HagenDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital (CWZ), Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Johanna L RhodesDepartment of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College School of Public Health, St Mary's Campus, London, UK.
Alireza AbdolrasouliDepartment of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College School of Public Health, St Mary's Campus, London, UK.
Anuradha ChowdharyDepartment of Medical Mycology, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
Anne HallDepartment of Microbiology, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK.
Lisa RyanDepartment of Microbiology, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK.
Joanne ShackletonDepartment of Microbiology, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK.
Richard TrimlettDepartment of Surgery, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK.
Jacques F MeisDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital (CWZ), Nijmegen, The Netherlands ; Radboudumc/CWZ Centre of Expertise in Mycology, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Darius Armstrong-JamesDepartment of Microbiology, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK ; Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College School of Public Health, St Mary's Campus, London, UK.
Matthew C FisherDepartment of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College School of Public Health, St Mary's Campus, London, UK.
Royal Brompton Hospital · GBSt Mary's Hospital · GBCanisius-Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis · NLUniversity of Delhi · IN

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

background

methodsData on

resultsThis report describes an ongoing outbreak of 50

conclusionThis ongoing outbreak with genotypically closely related

Indexed as

AFLP GenotypingCandida aurisHealthcare-associated infectionsOutbreak

Identifiers

PMID27777756
PMCPMC5069812
OpenAlexW2538799985

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