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ArticleScientific reports2018

Influence of growth media components on the antibacterial effect of silver ions on Bacillus subtilis in a liquid growth medium.

Ilse De Leersnyder, Leen De Gelder, Isabel Van Driessche, Pieter Vermeir

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 30 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ilse De LeersnyderDepartment of Green Chemistry and Technology, Laboratory of Chemical Analysis (LCA), Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. ilse.deleersnyder@UGent.be.ORCID 0000-0002-5070-2487
Leen De GelderDepartment of Biotechnology, Laboratory for Environmental Technology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Isabel Van DriesscheDepartment of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Sol-gel Center for Research on Inorganic Powders and Thin film Synthesis (SCRiPTS), Faculty of Science, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Pieter VermeirDepartment of Green Chemistry and Technology, Laboratory of Chemical Analysis (LCA), Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Ghent University · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Numerous studies have investigated the antibacterial effect of both silver ions and silver nanomaterials on a large diversity of environmentally and clinically relevant bacteria. However, contradictory results are reported in which inhibition concentrations were varying by a 10-fold. This study investigated whether this variance in results could be attributed to the difference in experimental conditions, especially the microbial growth medium. B. subtilis was exposed to 500 µg L

Indexed as

Anti-Bacterial AgentsBacillus subtilisFlow CytometryHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationMetal NanoparticlesMicroscopy, Electron, TransmissionSilverAnti-Bacterial AgentsSilver

Identifiers

PMID29921908
PMCPMC6008294
OpenAlexW2808112454

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