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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Nasopharyngeal infection by

Joseph J Zeppa, Katherine J Kasper, Ivor Mohorovic, Delfina M Mazzuca, S M Mansour Haeryfar, John K McCormick

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
46citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
8.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

46 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 71 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Joseph J ZeppaDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, ON N6A 5C1, Canada.
Katherine J KasperDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, ON N6A 5C1, Canada.
Ivor MohorovicDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, ON N6A 5C1, Canada.
Delfina M MazzucaDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, ON N6A 5C1, Canada.
S M Mansour HaeryfarDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, ON N6A 5C1, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1125-8176
John K McCormickDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, ON N6A 5C1, Canada; john.mccormick@uwo.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3742-7289
Western University · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The globally prominent pathogen

Indexed as

infectionnasopharynxStreptococcus pyogenessuperantigenT cells

Identifiers

PMID28794279
PMCPMC5617250
OpenAlexW2743039709

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