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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2018

Development of Echinocandin Resistance in Candida tropicalis following Short-Term Exposure to Caspofungin for Empiric Therapy.

Ziauddin Khan, Suhail Ahmad, Eiman Mokaddas, Jacques F Meis, Leena Joseph, Aneesa Abdullah, Sandhya Vayalil

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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 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

29 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Changing Climate, ChangingJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  6. Fighting Emerging Caspofungin-ResistantAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  9. First Report of Azole-ResistantJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  14. The emerging threat antifungal-resistantFrontiers in fungal biology · 2022
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  17. Microorganisms · 2021
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  20. Case Report: Echinocandin-ResistanceFrontiers in oncology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Ziauddin KhanDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Jabriya, Kuwait.
Suhail AhmadDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Jabriya, Kuwait suhail_ah@hsc.edu.kw.
Eiman MokaddasDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Jabriya, Kuwait.
Jacques F MeisDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-3253-6080
Leena JosephDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Jabriya, Kuwait.
Aneesa AbdullahDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Ibn Sina Hospital, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
Sandhya VayalilMycology Reference Laboratory, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, Jabriya, Kuwait.
Kuwait University · KWMubarak Al Kabeer Hospital · KWIbn Sina Hospital · KWRadboud University Nijmegen · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Isolation of two echinocandin-resistant

Indexed as

Antifungal AgentsCandida tropicalisCaspofunginDrug Resistance, FungalEchinocandinsFungal ProteinsGenotypeIntensive Care UnitsMutationAntifungal AgentsCaspofunginEchinocandinsFungal ProteinsCandida tropicalisechinocandinsFKS1 mutationsgenotypingprimary resistance

Identifiers

PMID29437623
PMCPMC5913946
OpenAlexW2790220629

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