Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29632199›Full record

ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

New insight into the early stages of biofilm formation.

Catherine R Armbruster, Matthew R Parsek

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers.

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66citing papers in PubMed
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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

66 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  11. Impact of oleuropein onIranian journal of microbiology · 2025
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  12. Rapid Detection ofMicroorganisms · 2025
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  15. How bacteria actively use passive physics to make biofilms.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  17. Antibiofilm Strategies in Neonatal and Pediatric Infections.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  20. Development of a tomato xylem-mimicking microfluidic system to studyFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024
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6 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Catherine R ArmbrusterDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15219.
Matthew R ParsekDepartment of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 parsem@u.washington.edu.

Funding

TRAINING IN MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGYT32GM007270 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI RAIBLE, DAVID W · 1985 to 2020
$21.0M
The pel exopolysaccharide gene cluster of Pseudomonas aeruginosaR01AI077628 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI MATTHEW R. PARSEK, Daniel J Wozniak · 2009 to 2026
$7.1M
Pittsburgh Training Grant in Pediatric Pulmonary MedicineT32HL129949 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Juan Carlos Celedon · 2016 to 2026
$2.9M
NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL129949NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI077628NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007270
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Biofilms

Identifiers

PMID29632199
PMCPMC5924939

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