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ArticleAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2017

Antimicrobial Activity of Bee Venom and Melittin against Borrelia burgdorferi.

Kayla M Socarras, Priyanka A S Theophilus, Jason P Torres, Khusali Gupta, Eva Sapi

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Article in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
42citing papers in PubMed
5.0field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

42 citing papers in PubMed, 78 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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kayla M SocarrasLyme Disease Research Group, Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT 06519, USA. kmsocarras@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-8901-2248
Priyanka A S TheophilusLyme Disease Research Group, Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT 06519, USA. priyankaannabel@gmail.com.
Jason P TorresLyme Disease Research Group, Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT 06519, USA. jtorr3@unh.newhaven.edu.
Khusali GuptaLyme Disease Research Group, Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT 06519, USA. kgupt2@unh.newhaven.edu.
Eva SapiLyme Disease Research Group, Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT 06519, USA. Esapi@newhaven.edu.
University of New Haven · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lyme disease is a tick-borne, multi-systemic disease, caused by the bacterium

Indexed as

antibiotic resistancebee venombiofilmsLyme diseasemelittinpersisters

Identifiers

PMID29186026
PMCPMC5745474
OpenAlexW2462524555

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