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ArticleScientific reports2016

Experimental challenge of pregnant cattle with the putative abortifacient Waddlia chondrophila.

Nicholas Wheelhouse, Allen Flockhart, Kevin Aitchison, Morag Livingstone, Jeanie Finlayson, Virginie Flachon, Eric Sellal, Mark P Dagleish, David Longbottom

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 10 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

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nicholas WheelhouseMoredun Research Institute, Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom.
Allen FlockhartMoredun Research Institute, Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom.
Kevin AitchisonMoredun Research Institute, Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom.
Morag LivingstoneMoredun Research Institute, Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom.
Jeanie FinlaysonMoredun Research Institute, Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom.
Virginie FlachonBiosellal, 317 Avenue Jean Jaurès, 69007 Lyoncedex, France.
Eric SellalBiosellal, 317 Avenue Jean Jaurès, 69007 Lyoncedex, France.
Mark P DagleishMoredun Research Institute, Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom.
David LongbottomMoredun Research Institute, Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom.
Moredun Research Institute · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/J015083/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Waddlia chondrophila is a Gram-negative intracellular bacterial organism that is related to classical chlamydial species and has been implicated as a cause of abortion in cattle. Despite an increasing number of observational studies linking W. chondrophila infection to cattle abortion, little direct experimental evidence exists. Given this paucity of direct evidence the current study was carried out to investigate whether experimental challenge of pregnant cattle with W. chondrophila would result in infection and abortion. Nine pregnant Friesian-Holstein heifers received 2 × 10

Indexed as

Abortion, SepticCattleCattle DiseasesChlamydialesGram-Negative Bacterial InfectionsPlacenta DiseasesAnimalsFemalePregnancy

Identifiers

PMID27841350
PMCPMC5107887
OpenAlexW2555791076

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