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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2017

Next-Generation Sequence Analysis Reveals Transfer of Methicillin Resistance to a Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Strain That Subsequently Caused a Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Outbreak: a Descriptive Study.

Veronica Weterings, Thijs Bosch, Sandra Witteveen, Fabian Landman, Leo Schouls, Jan Kluytmans

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 32% 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, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Genomic Characterization of Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Carriage in Patients on Home Parenteral Nutrition and Their Caregivers.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2024
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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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Veronica WeteringsLaboratory for Microbiology and Infection Control, Amphia Hospital, Breda, The Netherlands vweterings@amphia.nl.
Thijs BoschNational Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
Sandra WitteveenNational Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
Fabian LandmanNational Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
Leo SchoulsNational Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
Jan KluytmansLaboratory for Microbiology and Infection Control, Amphia Hospital, Breda, The Netherlands.
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment · NLAmphia Ziekenhuis · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Resistance to methicillin in

Indexed as

Anti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial ProteinsDisease OutbreaksDNA, BacterialDrug Resistance, Multiple, BacterialFemaleFusidic AcidGene Transfer, HorizontalHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansInterspersed Repetitive SequencesMaleMethicillinMethicillin ResistanceMethicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureusMicrobial Sensitivity TestsAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial ProteinsDNA, BacterialFusidic AcidmecA protein, Staphylococcus aureusMethicillinPenicillin-Binding ProteinsmecAmethicillin resistanceMRSAMSSAnext-generation sequencingNGSoutbreakSCCmecstaphylococcal cassette chromosome mecStaphylococcus aureuswgMLSTwithin-host diversity

Identifiers

PMID28679522
PMCPMC5648716
OpenAlexW2730682488

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