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ArticleInfection and drug resistance2018

First reported nosocomial outbreak of

Doaa Mohammad Ghaith, Mai Mahmoud Zafer, Dalia Kadry Ismail, Mohamed Hamed Al-Agamy, Marie Fe F Bohol, Ahmed Al-Qahtani, Mohammed N Al-Ahdal, Sherif M Elnagdy, Islam Yousif Mostafa

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Article in Infection and drug resistance, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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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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

27 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Doaa Mohammad GhaithDepartment of Clinical and Chemical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Mai Mahmoud ZaferDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ahram Canadian University, Giza, Egypt, mai_zafer@hotmail.com.
Dalia Kadry IsmailDepartment of Clinical and Chemical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Mohamed Hamed Al-AgamyDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Marie Fe F BoholDepartment of Infection and Immunity, Research Center, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Ahmed Al-QahtaniDepartment of Infection and Immunity, Research Center, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed N Al-AhdalDepartment of Infection and Immunity, Research Center, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Sherif M ElnagdyDepartment of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Islam Yousif MostafaDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Dentistry and Oral Medicine, Future University, Cairo, Egypt.
Cairo University · EGKing Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre · SAAhram Canadian University · EGAl-Azhar University · EGFuture University in Egypt · EG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introduction

methodsDuring the study period, 40 nonduplicate clinical isolates of

resultsAnalysis showed that 37.5% of the

conclusionHere, we report for the first time the detection of MBL-producing

Indexed as

carbapenemasesMALDI-TOFFMBL genesoutbreakPFGESME-1SME-2

Identifiers

PMID30519059
PMCPMC6233950
OpenAlexW2900336160

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