Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29118169›Full record

ReviewJournal of clinical microbiology2018

The Complexities of Nocardia Taxonomy and Identification.

Patricia S Conville, Barbara A Brown-Elliott, Terry Smith, Adrian M Zelazny

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Review in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 148 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
148citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
26.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

148 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 236 citations in OpenAlex.

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88 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Patricia S ConvilleDivision of Microbiology Devices, Office of In-Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA patricia.conville@fda.hhs.gov.
Barbara A Brown-ElliottMycobacteria/Nocardia Research Laboratory, University of Texas Health Science Center, Tyler, Texas, USA.
Terry SmithMycobacteria/Nocardia Research Laboratory, University of Texas Health Science Center, Tyler, Texas, USA.
Adrian M ZelaznyMicrobiology Service, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler · USCenter for Devices and Radiological Health · USNational Institutes of Health Clinical Center · US

Funding

Identification of Clinically Important Microbes by Genomic and Proteomic MethodsZIACL080012 · CLC · CLINICAL CENTER · PI ZELAZNY, ADRIAN MARCELO · 2009 to 2025
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AlgorithmsBacteriological TechniquesHumansMultilocus Sequence TypingNocardiaNocardia asteroidesNocardia InfectionsPhylogenySpecies SpecificitySpectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionizationaerobic actinomycetesNocardiataxonomy

Identifiers

PMID29118169
PMCPMC5744224
OpenAlexW2767389303

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.