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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2018

Novel Polymyxin Combination With Antineoplastic Mitotane Improved the Bacterial Killing Against Polymyxin-Resistant Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Pathogens.

Thien B Tran, Jiping Wang, Yohei Doi, Tony Velkov, Phillip J Bergen, Jian Li

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Thien B TranMonash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Department of Microbiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Jiping WangMonash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Department of Microbiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Yohei DoiDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
Tony VelkovDrug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Phillip J BergenDrug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Jian LiMonash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Department of Microbiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Monash University · AUUniversity of Melbourne · AUUniversity of Pittsburgh Medical Center · US

Funding

New Tricks for 'Old' Drugs: PK/PD of Polymyxin Nonantibiotic CombinationsR01AI111965 · NIAID · MONASH UNIVERSITY · PI LI, JIAN · 2014 to 2018
$4.3M
Colistin-resistant Acinetobacter baumanniiR01AI104895 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI DOI, YOHEI, ERNST, ROBERT K · 2014 to 2024
$4.2M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI104895NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI111965
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Due to limited new antibiotics, polymyxins are increasingly used to treat multidrug-resistant (MDR) Gram-negative bacteria, in particular carbapenem-resistant

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combination therapymitotanemultidrug-resistancepolymyxinrepurposing

Identifiers

PMID29706941
PMCPMC5906568
OpenAlexW2796671428

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