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SynthesisAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2019

A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Antibiotic Treatment Duration for Bacteremia Due to

Giannoula S Tansarli, Nikolaos Andreatos, Elina E Pliakos, Eleftherios Mylonakis

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In one paragraph

Synthesis 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 26 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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26citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. [S3 guideline on sepsis-prevention, diagnosis, therapy, and follow-up care-update 2025].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2025
    Guideline
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  4. Ethics of Antibiotic Course Duration: Shorter is Better.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB · 2026
    Article
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  6. ASP-COMPLEX: redefining antimicrobial stewardship to improve outcomes in high-risk patients with severe infections.Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia · 2026
    Review
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  15. Short-course antibiotic therapy: The next frontier in antimicrobial stewardship.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2022
    Article
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  17. Antimicrobial Treatment ofAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
    Review
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  20. Recommendations for antibiotic selection for severe nosocomial infections.Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia · 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

4 authors.

Giannoula S TansarliDivision of Infectious Diseases, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Nikolaos AndreatosDivision of Infectious Diseases, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Elina E PliakosDivision of Infectious Diseases, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Eleftherios MylonakisDivision of Infectious Diseases, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA emylonakis@lifespan.org.ORCID 0000-0002-4624-0777

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The duration of antibiotic therapy for bacteremia due to

Indexed as

Anti-Bacterial AgentsBacteremiaEnterobacteriaceaeHumansSepsisAnti-Bacterial Agentsantibiotic treatmentantimicrobial therapybacteremiabloodstream infectionEnterobacteriaceaeGram negativeoptimal durationsepsissepticemia

Identifiers

PMID30803971
PMCPMC6496097

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