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ArticleClinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2017

Healthcare-Associated Mycobacterium chimaera Transmission and Infection Prevention Challenges: Role of Heater-Cooler Units as a Water Source in Cardiac Surgery.

Hajime Kanamori, David J Weber, William A Rutala

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Article in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The State-of-the-Art ofHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
    Review
  2. Mycobacterial Biofilm: Mechanisms, Clinical Problems, and Treatments.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
    Review
  3. Genomic epidemiology ofERJ open research · 2024
    Article
  4. Epidemiology, management, and clinical outcomes of extrapulmonary Mycobacterium abscessus complex infections in heart transplant and ventricular assist device recipients.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2023
    Article
  5. Molecular Epidemiologic Investigation ofAnnals of the American Thoracic Society · 2023
    Article
  6. Invasive Mycobacterium abscessus Complex Infection After Cardiac Surgery: Epidemiology, Management, and Clinical Outcomes.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021
    Article
  7. Article
  8. Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2017
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Hajime KanamoriHospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, and.
David J WeberHospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, and.
William A RutalaHospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, and william.rutala@unchealth.unc.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

ChimeraWaterAnimalsCardiac Surgical ProceduresHumansMycobacteriumRiskWatercardiac surgeryhealthcare-associated infectionheater-cooler unitMycobacterium chimaeraoutbreak.

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PMID27927869

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