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ArticleClinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2017

Basic Sciences Fertilizing Clinical Microbiology and Infection Management.

Fernando Baquero

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Article in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Fernando BaqueroBiology and Evolution of Microorganisms, Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research (IRYCIS), Department of Microbiology, Network Center for Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, Madrid, Spain.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Basic sciences constitute the most abundant sources of creativity and innovation, as they are based on the passion of knowing. Basic knowledge, in close and fertile contact with medical and public health needs, produces distinct advancements in applied sciences. Basic sciences play the role of stem cells, providing material and semantics to construct differentiated tissues and organisms and enabling specialized functions and applications. However, eventually processes of "practice deconstruction" might reveal basic questions, as in de-differentiation of tissue cells. Basic sciences, microbiology, infectious diseases, and public health constitute an epistemological gradient that should also be an investigational continuum. The coexistence of all these interests and their cross-fertilization should be favored by interdisciplinary, integrative research organizations working simultaneously in the analytical and synthetic dimensions of scientific knowledge.

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Biological Science DisciplinesCommunicable Disease ControlMicrobiologyResearchClinical MedicineHumansInventionsPublic Healthbasic sciencesexperimental organizationsinfectioninnovationmicrobiology

Identifiers

PMID28859345
PMCPMC5848366

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