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ArticlemBio2018

Novel Insights into Staphylococcus aureus Deep Bone Infections: the Involvement of Osteocytes.

Dongqing Yang, Asiri R Wijenayaka, Lucian B Solomon, Stephen M Pederson, David M Findlay, Stephen P Kidd, Gerald J Atkins

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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 97 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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97citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
17.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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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

97 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 160 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Dongqing Yang *Centre for Orthopaedic & Trauma Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Asiri R Wijenayaka *Centre for Orthopaedic & Trauma Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Lucian B SolomonCentre for Orthopaedic & Trauma Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Stephen M PedersonBioinformatics Hub, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
David M FindlayCentre for Orthopaedic & Trauma Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Stephen P KiddAustralian Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Ecology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-2118-1651
Gerald J AtkinsCentre for Orthopaedic & Trauma Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia gerald.atkins@adelaide.edu.au.
The University of Adelaide · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) is a potentially devastating complication of orthopedic joint replacement surgery. PJI with associated osteomyelitis is particularly problematic and difficult to cure. Whether viable osteocytes, the predominant cell type in mineralized bone tissue, have a role in these infections is not clear, although their involvement might contribute to the difficulty in detecting and clearing PJI. Here, using

Indexed as

Cells, CulturedHumansModels, BiologicalOsteoarthritisOsteocytesProsthesis-Related InfectionsStaphylococcal InfectionsStaphylococcus aureusbone infectionosteomyelitisperiprosthetic joint infectionsmall-colony variantStaphylococcus aureusstress adaptation

Identifiers

PMID29691335
PMCPMC5915738
OpenAlexW2799379997

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