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ArticleGastroenterology2017

Probiotics for Prevention of Clostridium difficile Infection in Hospitalized Patients: Is the Jury Still Out?

Krishna Rao, Vincent B Young

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Article in Gastroenterology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The Relationship Between the Microbiome and Antimicrobial Resistance.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023
    Article
  2. Article
  3. Control ofMicrobiology spectrum · 2017
    Review
  4. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Krishna RaoDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Vincent B YoungDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Electronic address: youngvi@umich.edu.

Funding

Systems biology of Clostridium difficile infectionU01AI124255 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI SCHLOSS, PATRICK DAVID, YOUNG, VINCENT B · 2016 to 2020
$9.8M
Host and Microbial Biomarkers Related to the Development of Complicated Clostridium difficile InfectionR21AI120599 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI YOUNG, VINCENT B · 2015 to 2016
$426k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI120599NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI124255
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Clostridium InfectionsProbioticsAnti-Bacterial AgentsClostridioides difficileDiarrheaHumansAnti-Bacterial Agents

Identifiers

PMID28461190
PMCPMC5754213

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Registered trials

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