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ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2019

Metabolism the Difficile Way: The Key to the Success of the Pathogen

Meina Neumann-Schaal, Dieter Jahn, Kerstin Schmidt-Hohagen

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Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 97 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
97citing papers in PubMed
10.3field-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

97 citing papers in PubMed, 160 citations in OpenAlex.

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37 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Meina Neumann-SchaalLeibniz Institute DSMZ, German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany.
Dieter JahnIntegrated Centre of Systems Biology (BRICS), Braunschweig University of Technology, Braunschweig, Germany.
Kerstin Schmidt-HohagenIntegrated Centre of Systems Biology (BRICS), Braunschweig University of Technology, Braunschweig, Germany.
Technische Universität Braunschweig · DELeibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Strains of

Indexed as

Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficilefermentationmetabolismStickland reactionsTCA cycleWood-Ljungdahl pathway

Identifiers

PMID30828322
PMCPMC6384274
OpenAlexW2911411449

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Registered trials

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