Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32257376›Full record

ArticleFuture science OA2020

Antibiotic resistance pattern of

Raja Ram Gurung, Prashanna Maharjan, Ganga Gharti Chhetri

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Future science OA, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
37citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
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

37 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Pooled it
  3. A Six-Year Retrospective Surveillance of OutpatientInfectious diseases & clinical microbiology · 2026
    Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. A comparative study of methicillin resistance and mupirocin resistance inJournal of family medicine and primary care · 2025
    Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Evaluation of Antimicrobial Activity ofBioMed research international · 2025
    Article
  12. Observational
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Article
  18. Article
  19. Molecular detection of multidrug and methicillin resistance inOne health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024
    Article
  20. Article
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.

Raja Ram GurungTri-Chandra Multiple Campus affiliated to Tribhuvan University, Department of Microbiology, Kirtipur, Kathmandu 44600, Nepal.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4515-5853
Prashanna MaharjanBiotechnology Society of Nepal (BSN), Rani Devi Marg, Kathmandu 44600, Nepal.
Ganga Gharti ChhetriTri-Chandra Multiple Campus affiliated to Tribhuvan University, Department of Microbiology, Kirtipur, Kathmandu 44600, Nepal.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimThe extent of methicillin-resistant MATERIALS &

methodsSix hundred and seventy-two clinical samples collected from 232 patients between June and November 2016 were processed in a microbiology laboratory.

resultsOut of 300 culture-positive samples, 52 (17.3%) were

conclusionThis demonstrates the utmost need for routine testing for MRSA in Nepalese hospitals.

Indexed as

antibiotic resistanceinducible clindamycin-resistant (ICR) test or D-zone testmacrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B (MLSB) phenotypemethicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)Nepal

Identifiers

PMID32257376
PMCPMC7117559

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.