Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30455229›Full record

ReviewAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2019

Role of Rifampin against Staphylococcal Biofilm Infections

Werner Zimmerli, Parham Sendi

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In one paragraph

Review in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 125 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
125citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
17.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

125 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 205 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Rifampin Based Therapy for Patients With Staphylococcus aureus Native Vertebral Osteomyelitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2024
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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Werner ZimmerliInterdisciplinary Unit of Orthopaedic Infections, Kantonsspital Baselland, Liestal, Switzerland.
Parham SendiDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland parham.sendi@ifik.unibe.ch.ORCID 0000-0002-7347-6312
University of Basel · CHUniversity of Bern · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rifampin has been used as an agent in combination therapy in orthopedic device-related infections (ODRI) for almost three decades. The aim of this review is to provide data regarding the role of rifampin against biofilm infection

Indexed as

AnimalsAnti-Bacterial AgentsBiofilmsProsthesis-Related InfectionsRifampinStaphylococcus aureusAnti-Bacterial AgentsRifampinprosthetic joint infectionrifampinStaphylococcus

Identifiers

PMID30455229
PMCPMC6355554
OpenAlexW2901070409

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.