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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2018

Direct Whole-Genome Sequencing of Cutaneous Strains of Haemophilus ducreyi.

Michael Marks, Maria Fookes, Josef Wagner, Rosanna Ghinai, Oliver Sokana, Yaw-Adu Sarkodie, Anthony W Solomon, David C W Mabey, Nicholas R Thomson

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 31% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A Class IInfection and immunity · 2019
    Trial
  2. High Prevalence of Haemophilus ducreyi Among Patients With Suspected Primary syphilis in Malawi, 2019-2022.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2026
    Article
  3. Observational
  4. Molecular pathogenesis ofMicrobiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2025
    Review
  5. Infections caused byClinical microbiology reviews · 2024
    Review
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Interactions of the Skin PathogenFrontiers in immunology · 2020
    Review
  9. Article
  10. Multiple Class I and Class II Haemophilus ducreyi Strains Cause Cutaneous Ulcers in Children on an Endemic Island.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2018
    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

9 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Michael Marks
Maria Fookes
Josef Wagner
Rosanna Ghinai
Oliver Sokana
Yaw-Adu Sarkodie
Anthony W Solomon
David C W Mabey
Nicholas R Thomson
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology · GHWellcome Sanger Institute · GBHospital for Tropical Diseases · VN

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 098051Wellcome Trust 102807
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Haemophilus ducreyi, which causes chancroid, has emerged as a cause of pediatric skin disease. Isolation of H. ducreyi in low-income settings is challenging, limiting phylogenetic investigation. Next-generation sequencing demonstrates that cutaneous strains arise from class I and II H. ducreyi clades and that class II may represent a distinct subspecies.

Indexed as

Genome, BacterialWhole Genome SequencingAdolescentChancroidChildHaemophilus ducreyiHumansPhylogenyPolymorphism, Single NucleotideRNA, Ribosomal, 16SSkin Diseases, BacterialRNA, Ribosomal, 16S16S rRNA gene sequencingbacteriachancroidchildrenGhanaHaemophilus ducreyinext-generation sequencingskin diseaseSolomon IslandsTreponema pallidumWhole-genome sequencingyaws

Identifiers

PMID29553314
PMCPMC5875288
OpenAlexW2790350706

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