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ArticleScience advances2018

Bacteria as living patchy colloids: Phenotypic heterogeneity in surface adhesion.

Teun Vissers, Aidan T Brown, Nick Koumakis, Angela Dawson, Michiel Hermes, Jana Schwarz-Linek, Andrew B Schofield, Joseph M French, Vasileios Koutsos, Jochen Arlt and 2 more

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Article in Science advances, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 71 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Plasmonic probing of the adhesion strength of single microbial cells.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  17. The role of polymers in cross-kingdom bioadhesion.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019
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  19. Kinetic of Adhesion ofBioMed research international · 2019
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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

12 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Teun VissersScottish Universities Physics Alliances and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8337-6393
Aidan T BrownScottish Universities Physics Alliances and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6898-4021
Nick KoumakisScottish Universities Physics Alliances and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5733-1036
Angela DawsonScottish Universities Physics Alliances and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9952-1695
Michiel HermesScottish Universities Physics Alliances and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK.
Jana Schwarz-LinekScottish Universities Physics Alliances and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK.
Andrew B SchofieldScottish Universities Physics Alliances and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8741-856X
Joseph M FrenchScottish Universities Physics Alliances and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2204-1615
Vasileios KoutsosSchool of Engineering, Institute for Materials and Processes, University of Edinburgh, Sanderson Building, Robert Stevenson Road, The King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3FB, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2203-8179
Jochen ArltScottish Universities Physics Alliances and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4152-5896
Vincent A MartinezScottish Universities Physics Alliances and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2395-5929
Wilson C K PoonScottish Universities Physics Alliances and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK.
Scottish Universities Physics Alliance · GBUniversity of Edinburgh · GBUtrecht University · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding and controlling the surface adhesion of pathogenic bacteria is of urgent biomedical importance. However, many aspects of this process remain unclear (for example, microscopic details of the initial adhesion and possible variations between individual cells). Using a new high-throughput method, we identify and follow many single cells within a clonal population of

Indexed as

Bacterial AdhesionBacterial Physiological PhenomenaColloidsAlgorithmsEscherichia coliHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysModels, TheoreticalPhenotypeSurface PropertiesColloids

Identifiers

PMID29719861
PMCPMC5922800
OpenAlexW2793172644

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