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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2018

Intermittent Antibiotic Therapy for Recurrent Nodular Bronchiectatic Mycobacterium avium Complex Lung Disease.

Byung Woo Jhun, Seong Mi Moon, Su-Young Kim, Hye Yun Park, Kyeongman Jeon, O Jung Kwon, Hee Jae Huh, Chang-Seok Ki, Nam Yong Lee, Myung Jin Chung and 4 more

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Role of Clofazimine in Treatment ofFrontiers in medicine · 2021
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  2. Treatment of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease: An Official ATS/ERS/ESCMID/IDSA Clinical Practice Guideline.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2020
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  4. Treatment Outcomes ofOpen forum infectious diseases · 2025
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  11. Differential Genotyping ofMicroorganisms · 2020
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  12. Treatment ofTuberculosis and respiratory diseases · 2019
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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

14 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Byung Woo Jhun *Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Seong Mi Moon *Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Su-Young KimDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Hye Yun ParkDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Kyeongman JeonDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
O Jung KwonDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Hee Jae HuhDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Chang-Seok KiDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Nam Yong LeeDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Myung Jin ChungDepartment of Radiology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Kyung Soo LeeDepartment of Radiology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Sung Jae ShinDepartment of Microbiology, Institute for Immunology and Immunological Diseases, Brain Korea 21 PLUS Project for Medical Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Charles L DaleyDivision of Mycobacterial and Respiratory Infections, Department of Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Won-Jung KohDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea wjkoh@skku.edu.
Samsung Medical Center · KRSungkyunkwan University · KRNational Jewish Health · USYonsei University · KR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intermittent, three-times-weekly oral antibiotic therapy is recommended for the initial treatment of noncavitary nodular bronchiectatic (NB)

Indexed as

AgedAnti-Bacterial AgentsBronchiectasisFemaleHumansLungLung DiseasesMaleMiddle AgedMycobacterium avium ComplexMycobacterium avium-intracellulare InfectionRecurrenceSputumAnti-Bacterial AgentsMycobacterium aviumMycobacterium avium complexMycobacterium intracellularerecurrencetreatment outcome

Identifiers

PMID29203483
PMCPMC5786774
OpenAlexW2771810203

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