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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2018

Direct-from-Blood-Culture Disk Diffusion To Determine Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Gram-Negative Bacteria: Preliminary Report from the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute Methods Development and Standardization Working Group.

Sukantha Chandrasekaran, April Abbott, Shelley Campeau, Barbara L Zimmer, Melvin Weinstein, Lauri Thrupp, John Hejna, Lindsey Walker, Tracy Ammann, Thomas Kirn and 2 more

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Article 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 47 papers.

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47citing papers in PubMed
7.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

47 citing papers in PubMed, 95 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

12 authors at 7 institutions in 1 country.

Sukantha ChandrasekaranUCLA Clinical Microbiology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
April AbbottDeaconess Health System, Evansville, Indiana, USA.
Shelley CampeauUCLA Clinical Microbiology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Barbara L ZimmerBeckman Coulter, West Sacramento, California, USA.
Melvin WeinsteinDepartment of Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
Lauri ThruppUniversity of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA.
John HejnaAccelerate Diagnostics, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Lindsey WalkerBeckman Coulter, West Sacramento, California, USA.
Tracy AmmannAccelerate Diagnostics, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Thomas KirnDepartment of Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
Robin PatelMayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Romney M HumphriesUCLA Clinical Microbiology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA rhumphries@axdx.com.
University of California, Los Angeles · USAccelerated Medical Diagnostics (United States) · USBeckman Coulter Foundation · USJohnson University · USDeaconess Hospital · USMayo Clinic · USUniversity of California, Irvine · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The performance of a disk diffusion test using broth from positive blood cultures as inoculum (direct disk diffusion [dDD]) was evaluated for a collection of 20 challenge isolates of

Indexed as

Anti-Bacterial AgentsBacteriological TechniquesBloodClinical Laboratory TechniquesCulture MediaDisk Diffusion Antimicrobial TestsEnterobacteriaceaeGram-Negative BacteriaHumansTime FactorsAnti-Bacterial AgentsCulture Mediablood cultureGram-negative bacteriasusceptibility testing

Identifiers

PMID29305540
PMCPMC5824059
OpenAlexW2781832421

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