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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2017

Mycobacterium abscessus Displays Fitness for Fomite Transmission.

Kenneth C Malcolm, Silvia M Caceres, Jennifer R Honda, Rebecca M Davidson, L Elaine Epperson, Michael Strong, Edward D Chan, Jerry A Nick

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-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

22 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. Cross-transmission Is Not the Source of New Mycobacterium abscessus Infections in a Multicenter Cohort of Cystic Fibrosis Patients.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2020
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  18. Epidemiology of Nontuberculous Mycobacteriosis.Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine · 2018
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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

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kenneth C MalcolmDepartment of Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, USA malcolmk@njhealth.org.
Silvia M CaceresDepartment of Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Jennifer R HondaDepartment of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
Rebecca M DavidsonCenter for Genes, Environment and Health, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, USA.
L Elaine EppersonCenter for Genes, Environment and Health, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Michael StrongCenter for Genes, Environment and Health, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Edward D ChanDepartment of Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Jerry A NickDepartment of Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, USA.
National Jewish Health · USUniversity of Colorado Denver · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

FomitesHumansMycobacterium abscessusMycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculousacquisitioncystic fibrosisdesiccationmicrobe-mineral interactionsnontuberculous mycobacteria

Identifiers

PMID28754702
PMCPMC5601336
OpenAlexW2741509739

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Registered trials

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