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ReviewCureus2019

The Hypervirulent Strain of Clostridium Difficile: NAP1/B1/027 - A Brief Overview.

Rawish Fatima, Muhammad Aziz

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In one paragraph

Review in Cureus, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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38citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

38 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Clinical Characteristics and Risk Factors ofJournal of clinical medicine · 2026
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  3. Addressing Unmet Needs inCurrent medicinal chemistry · 2026
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  4. Extraintestinal Manifestations ofAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  7. AApplied and environmental microbiology · 2025
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  8. Dominance of toxigenicFrontiers in microbiology · 2025
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  9. Prevalence of toxigenicThe Libyan journal of medicine · 2024
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  10. Development of multi-epitope mRNA vaccine againstSynthetic and systems biotechnology · 2024
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  12. "Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  15. Journal of medical microbiology · 2024
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  18. Microorganisms · 2023
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  20. Microorganisms · 2023
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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.

Rawish FatimaInternal Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, PAK.
Muhammad AzizInternal Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clostridium difficile is a gram-positive bacterium notorious for causing epidemic diarrhea globally with a significant health burden. The pathogen is clinically challenging with increasing antibiotic resistance and recurrence rate. We provide here an in-depth review of one particular strain/ribotype 027, commonly known as NAP1/B1/027 or North American pulsed-field gel electrophoresis type 1, restriction endonuclease analysis type B1, polymerase chain reaction ribotype 027, which has shown a much higher recurrence rate than other strains.

Indexed as

clostridium difficilediarrheanap1/b1/027recurrenceribotype 027

Identifiers

PMID30967977
PMCPMC6440555

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