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ArticlemBio2018

The Birth and Demise of the IS

Erik Snesrud, Patrick McGann, Michael Chandler

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Article in mBio, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 80 papers.

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80citing papers in PubMed
5.0field-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

80 citing papers in PubMed, 130 citations in OpenAlex.

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20 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Erik SnesrudMultidrug-Resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
Patrick McGannMultidrug-Resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA patrick.t.mcgann4.civ@mail.mil Mike.Chandler@ibcg.biotoul.fr.
Michael ChandlerLaboratoire de Microbiologie et Genetique Moleculaires, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France patrick.t.mcgann4.civ@mail.mil Mike.Chandler@ibcg.biotoul.fr.ORCID 0000-0002-0292-6662
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research · USGeorgetown University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The origin and mobilization of the ~2,609-bp DNA segment containing the mobile colistin resistance gene

Indexed as

DNA Transposable ElementsDrug Resistance, BacterialAnti-Bacterial AgentsColistinComputational BiologyDNA, BacterialMoraxellaAnti-Bacterial AgentsColistinDNA, BacterialDNA Transposable Elementscolistin resistancecomposite transposon formationdrug resistance evolutioninsertion sequencetransposon decay

Identifiers

PMID29440577
PMCPMC5821093
OpenAlexW2789944246

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