Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29438355›Full record

ArticleAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Efficacy of an Optimised Bacteriophage Cocktail to Clear Clostridium difficile in a Batch Fermentation Model.

Janet Y Nale, Tamsin A Redgwell, Andrew Millard, Martha R J Clokie

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Article in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
69citing papers in PubMed
6.1field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

69 citing papers in PubMed, 89 citations in OpenAlex.

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9 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Janet Y NaleDepartment of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 9HN, UK. jn142@le.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-0501-7402
Tamsin A RedgwellSchool of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK. T.Redgwell@warwick.ac.uk.
Andrew MillardDepartment of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 9HN, UK. adm39@leicester.ac.uk.
Martha R J ClokieDepartment of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 9HN, UK. mrjc1@le.ac.uk.
University of Leicester · GBUniversity of Warwick · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

bacteriophagesClostridium difficileClostridium difficile infectionin vitro fermentation modelmicrobiomephage therapy

Identifiers

PMID29438355
PMCPMC5872124
OpenAlexW2793300862

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Registered trials

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