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ArticleInfection and immunity2018

Capsule Prolongs Survival of Streptococcus pneumoniae during Starvation.

Shigeto Hamaguchi, M Ammar Zafar, Michael Cammer, Jeffrey N Weiser

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Article in Infection and immunity, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

27 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shigeto HamaguchiDepartment of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
M Ammar ZafarDepartment of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3737-0422
Michael CammerDivision of Advanced Research Technologies, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4930-1739
Jeffrey N WeiserDepartment of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA jeffrey.weiser@nyumc.org.ORCID 0000-0001-7168-8090
New York University · US

Funding

ROLE OF OPACITY VARIATION IN PNEUMOCOCCAL PATHOGENESISR01AI038446 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI WEISER, JEFFREY NEAL · 1996 to 2019
$7.4M
Mechanisms of Pneumococcal Persistence During CarriageR37AI038446 · NIAID · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI Jeffrey Neal Weiser · 2020 to 2026
$3.8M
Early Events in Pneumococcal ColonizationR01AI105168 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI WEISER, JEFFREY NEAL · 2014 to 2018
$2.1M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI038446NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI105168NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI038446
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Person-to-person transmission of

Indexed as

AnimalsBacterial CapsulesMiceMice, Inbred C57BLPneumococcal InfectionsStreptococcus pneumoniaecapsule polysaccharidecell viabilitypneumococcusstarvationStreptococcus pneumoniae

Identifiers

PMID29311231
PMCPMC5820961
OpenAlexW2781717575

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