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ArticleOpen forum infectious diseases2018

Bacteremia and Septic Arthritis due to a Nontoxigenic Strain of

Emilie Hill, Adrienne D Workman, Francesca Lee, Rita Hollaway, Dominick Cavuoti, Bonnie C Prokesch

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Article in Open forum infectious diseases, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 35% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Extraintestinal Manifestations ofAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
    Review
  2. Access microbiology · 2021
    Article
  3. Clinical characteristics and prognostic factors of extraintestinal infection caused by Clostridioides difficile: analysis of 60 consecutive cases.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2020
    Article
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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Emilie HillDepartment of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
Adrienne D WorkmanDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
Francesca LeeDepartment of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
Rita HollawayDepartment of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
Dominick CavuotiDepartment of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
Bonnie C ProkeschDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 22-year-old female with sickle cell disease presented with fevers, bilateral knee pain, and lethargy. Laboratory data revealed a leukocytosis and lactic acidosis. Blood and synovial fluid cultures grew a non-toxin-producing strain of

Indexed as

bacteremiaClostridium difficilehemoglobin SS diseaseseptic arthritissickle cell disease

Identifiers

PMID29410974
PMCPMC5793821
OpenAlexW2781774773

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