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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Phage liquid crystalline droplets form occlusive sheaths that encapsulate and protect infectious rod-shaped bacteria.

Abul K Tarafder, Andriko von Kügelgen, Adam J Mellul, Ulrike Schulze, Dirk G A L Aarts, Tanmay A M Bharat

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers.

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71citing papers in PubMed
12.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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.

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

71 citing papers in PubMed, 115 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. Mechanics of liquid crystal inclusions in soft matrices.Journal of the mechanics and physics of solids · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Abul K TarafderSir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, OX1 3RE Oxford, United Kingdom.
Andriko von KügelgenSir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, OX1 3RE Oxford, United Kingdom.
Adam J MellulDepartment of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, OX1 3QZ Oxford, United Kingdom.
Ulrike SchulzeWolfson Imaging Centre, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, OX3 9DS Oxford, United Kingdom.
Dirk G A L AartsDepartment of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, OX1 3QZ Oxford, United Kingdom.
Tanmay A M BharatSir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, OX1 3RE Oxford, United Kingdom; tanmay.bharat@path.ox.ac.uk.
University of Oxford · GB

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 202231/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The opportunistic pathogen

Indexed as

Anti-Bacterial AgentsBacteriaBacteriophagesCapsidCommunicable DiseasesCryoelectron MicroscopyDNA, ViralDrug Resistance, BacterialGenome, ViralInovirusModels, MolecularNeisseria meningitidisProphagesSalmonella entericaVibrio choleraeAnti-Bacterial AgentsDNA, Viralantibiotic tolerancecryo-EMphagephase separationPseudomonas aeruginosa

Identifiers

PMID32071243
PMCPMC7060675
OpenAlexW3007468112

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