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

Origin, evolution, and global transmission of community-acquired

Lena Strauß, Marc Stegger, Patrick Eberechi Akpaka, Abraham Alabi, Sebastien Breurec, Geoffrey Coombs, Beverly Egyir, Anders Rhod Larsen, Frederic Laurent, Stefan Monecke and 6 more

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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 103 papers.

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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

103 citing papers in PubMed, 150 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

16 authors at 10 institutions in 9 countries.

Lena StraußInstitute of Hygiene, University Hospital Münster, DE 48149 Münster, Germany.
Marc SteggerDepartment of Bacteria, Parasites, and Fungi, Statens Serum Institut, DK 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-0321-1180
Patrick Eberechi AkpakaDepartment of Paraclinical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.ORCID 0000-0001-9895-3077
Abraham AlabiDepartment of Microbiology, Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, GA 242 Lambaréné, Gabon.
Sebastien BreurecFaculty of Medicine, University Hospital of Pointe-à-Pitre, University of the French West Indies, 97110 Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, France.
Geoffrey CoombsSchool of Veterinary and Laboratory Sciences, Murdoch University, Western Australia, Australia, 6150.
Beverly EgyirDepartment of Bacteriology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, LG581 Accra, Ghana.
Anders Rhod LarsenDepartment of Bacteria, Parasites, and Fungi, Statens Serum Institut, DK 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Frederic LaurentNational Reference Center for Staphylococci, Hospices Civils de Lyon, University of Lyon, FR 69002 Lyon, France.
Stefan MoneckeInstitute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Technical University of Dresden, DE 01307 Dresden, Germany.
Georg PetersInstitute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Münster, DE 48149 Münster, Germany.
Robert SkovDepartment of Bacteria, Parasites, and Fungi, Statens Serum Institut, DK 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Birgit StrommengerNational Reference Centre for Staphylococci and Enterococci, Wernigerode Branch, Robert-Koch-Institut, DE 38855 Wernigerode, Germany.
François VandeneschNational Reference Center for Staphylococci, Hospices Civils de Lyon, University of Lyon, FR 69002 Lyon, France.ORCID 0000-0001-9412-7106
Frieder SchaumburgInstitute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Münster, DE 48149 Münster, Germany.
Alexander MellmannInstitute of Hygiene, University Hospital Münster, DE 48149 Münster, Germany; mellmann@uni-Muenster.de.ORCID 0000-0002-0649-5185
University Hospital Münster · DEStatens Serum Institut · DKUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1 · FRCentre de Recherche Médicales de Lambaréné · GACentre Hospitalier Universitaire Pointe-à-Pitre · GPInstitute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene · DEMurdoch University · AUNoguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research · GHRobert Koch Institute · DEUniversity of the West Indies · TT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

USA300 is a pandemic clonal lineage of hypervirulent, community-acquired, methicillin-resistant

Indexed as

Evolution, MolecularGenome, BacterialPhylogenyAfricaAustraliaBacterial ToxinsBayes TheoremCommunity-Acquired InfectionsEuropeExotoxinsHumansInterspersed Repetitive SequencesLeukocidinsMethicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureusMultilocus Sequence TypingNorth AmericaBacterial ToxinsExotoxinsLeukocidinsPanton-Valentine leukocidinType IV Secretion SystemsAfricaCA-MRSAcomparative genomicsmolecular evolutionUSA300

Identifiers

PMID29158405
PMCPMC5724248
OpenAlexW2770483018

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