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ArticleAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Stability of Biological Activity of Frozen β-lactams over Time as Assessed by Time-Lapsed Broth Microdilutions.

Gleice Leite, Alexander Lawandi, Matthew P Cheng, Todd Lee

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Article in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 35% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gleice LeiteResearch Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC H4A 3J1, Canada. gleice.leite@muhc.mcgill.ca.
Alexander LawandiDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC H4A 3J1, Canada. alexander.lawandi@mail.mcgill.ca.
Matthew P ChengResearch Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC H4A 3J1, Canada. matthew.cheng@mail.mcgill.ca.
Todd LeeResearch Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC H4A 3J1, Canada. todd.lee@mcgill.ca.
McGill University Health Centre · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To evaluate the antimicrobial agent's stability stored at -80 °C, six β-lactams (meropenem, ertapenem, imipenem, ceftriaxone, ceftazidime, and piperacillin-tazobactam) were studied using the broth microdilution (BMD). The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) remained accurate with the same amount of frozen drug for at least six months. Thereafter, there was a diminishing drug concentration due to instability. At this temperature, most β-lactams can be frozen as a stock concentration for up to six months without a significant loss in antibiotic activity.

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antimicrobialantimicrobial stabilityBeta-lactamsfrozen drugs

Identifiers

PMID31557817
PMCPMC6963782
OpenAlexW2977223394

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