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ArticlemBio2018

Inability to Culture Pneumocystis jirovecii.

Yueqin Liu, Gary A Fahle, Joseph A Kovacs

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

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0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. Advances in pathogen detection ofInfectious medicine · 2025
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  10. Axenic Long-Term Cultivation ofJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  16. Consensus Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme forJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
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  18. Advances in the diagnosis of fungal pneumonias.Expert review of respiratory medicine · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Yueqin LiuCritical Care Medicine Department, NIH Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA liuyue@cc.nih.gov jkovacs@nih.gov.
Gary A FahleDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, NIH Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Joseph A KovacsCritical Care Medicine Department, NIH Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA liuyue@cc.nih.gov jkovacs@nih.gov.ORCID 0000-0002-5191-9880

Funding

Molecular Studies Of Human Pneumocystis CariniiZIACL000192 · CLC · CLINICAL CENTER · PI KOVACS, JOSEPH A · 2009 to 2025
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Pneumonia, PneumocystisDNA, FungalHumansPneumocystis cariniiRespiratory SystemDNA, Fungalculturein vitroP. jiroveciipneumocystis

Identifiers

PMID29895638
PMCPMC6016241

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