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ArticleEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin2019

Whole genome sequencing suggests transmission of

Anja Berger, Alexandra Dangel, Tilmann Schober, Birgit Schmidbauer, Regina Konrad, Durdica Marosevic, Sören Schubert, Stefan Hörmansdorfer, Nikolaus Ackermann, Johannes Hübner and 1 more

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Article in Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Endemic erythromycin resistantMicrobial genomics · 2022
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  7. Genomic Epidemiology and Strain Taxonomy ofJournal of clinical microbiology · 2021
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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

11 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anja BergerNational Consiliary Laboratory for Diphtheria, Oberschleißheim, Germany.
Alexandra DangelBavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleißheim, Germany.
Tilmann SchoberThese authors contributed equally to this paper.
Birgit SchmidbauerDepartment of Health and Environment, Munich, Germany.
Regina KonradNational Consiliary Laboratory for Diphtheria, Oberschleißheim, Germany.
Durdica MarosevicBavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleißheim, Germany.
Sören SchubertMax von Pettenkofer-Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany.
Stefan HörmansdorferBavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleißheim, Germany.
Nikolaus AckermannBavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleißheim, Germany.
Johannes HübnerDivision of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany.
Andreas SingNational Consiliary Laboratory for Diphtheria, Oberschleißheim, Germany.
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In September 2018, a child who had returned from Somalia to Germany presented with cutaneous diphtheria by toxigenic

Indexed as

AmoxicillinAnti-Bacterial AgentsChildClavulanic AcidCorynebacterium diphtheriaeDiphtheriaDiphtheria ToxinDNA, BacterialFemaleGermanyHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionSiblingsSomaliaTravelAmoxicillinAnti-Bacterial AgentsClavulanic AcidDiphtheria ToxinDNA, BacterialCorynebacterium diphtheriaediphtheriaMLSToutbreaktoxigenictypingWGS

Identifiers

PMID30646974
PMCPMC6337054
OpenAlexW2908683166

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Registered trials

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