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ArticlePakistan journal of medical sciences

Methylglyoxal: Antimicrobial activity against blood culture isolates of Salmonella Typhi and other Gram negative rods.

Raja Kamran Afzal, Fizza Khalid, Abdul Hannan, Syed Azhar Ahmed

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Article in Pakistan journal of medical sciences. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 28% 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Raja Kamran AfzalDr. Raja Kamran Afzal, FCPS, PhD. Department of Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Fizza KhalidFizza Khalid, Department of Pathology, University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.
Abdul HannanDr. Abdul Hannan, Dip Card, FRCPath. Department of Pathology, University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.
Syed Azhar AhmedDr. Syed Azhar Ahmed, FRCPath, PhD. Department of Pathology, Baqai Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan.
University of Health Sciences Lahore · PKArmed Forces Institute of Pathology · PKBaqai Medical University · PK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesTo evaluate the activity of Methylglyoxal against the blood culture isolates of Salmonella Typhi and various Gram negative rods and to compare the activity of Methylglyoxal against S. Typhi and other Gram negative rods.

methodsIt was an experimental study conducted at the Department of Microbiology, University of Health Sciences (UHS), Lahore-Pakistan in collaboration with the Department of Microbiology, CMH Lahore, from July 2011 to June 2012. Recent blood culture isolates of

resultsMIC

conclusionMGO has a scientifically proven

Indexed as

Blood cultureGram negative rodsMethylglyoxalSalmonella Typhi

Identifiers

PMID31372152
PMCPMC6659080
OpenAlexW2955228625

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