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ArticleScience translational medicine2016

Comment on "A small-molecule antivirulence agent for treating Clostridium difficile infection".

Greg L Beilhartz, John Tam, Zhifen Zhang, Roman A Melnyk

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Article in Science translational medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Antibacterial Activity of Ebselen.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
    Review
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  3. Expert opinion on therapeutic targets · 2021
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  4. Anti-virulence strategies forGut microbes · 2020
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  8. Recent advances in the treatment ofInfection and drug resistance · 2019
    Article
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  10. Cysteine Protease-Mediated Autocleavage ofCellular and molecular gastroenterology and hepatology · 2018
    Article
  11. Small Molecules That Sabotage Bacterial Virulence.Trends in pharmacological sciences · 2017
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Greg L BeilhartzMolecular Structure & Function, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4, Canada.
John TamMolecular Structure & Function, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4, Canada.
Zhifen ZhangMolecular Structure & Function, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4, Canada.
Roman A MelnykMolecular Structure & Function, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4, Canada. roman.melnyk@sickkids.ca.
University of Toronto · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

New insights into the mechanism of action of ebselen, a small-molecule antivirulence agent that reduces disease pathology in a mouse model of Clostridium difficile infection, suggest a different molecular target may be responsible for its efficacy.

Indexed as

Clostridioides difficileClostridium InfectionsAnimalsAnti-Bacterial AgentsMiceAnti-Bacterial Agents

Identifiers

PMID28003550
OpenAlexW2562376561

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.