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ReviewHeliyon2020

An African perspective on the prevalence, fate and effects of carbapenem resistance genes in hospital effluents and wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) final effluents: A critical review.

Kingsley Ehi Ebomah, Anthony Ifeanyi Okoh

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Review in Heliyon, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
10citing 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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Genomic Surveillance of ESBL-ProducingPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  6. New Bacteriophages Members of thePHAGE (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 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.

Kingsley Ehi EbomahSAMRC Microbial Water Quality Monitoring Centre, University of Fort Hare, Alice 5700, South Africa.
Anthony Ifeanyi OkohSAMRC Microbial Water Quality Monitoring Centre, University of Fort Hare, Alice 5700, South Africa.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article provides an overview of the antibiotic era and discovery of earliest antibiotics until the present day state of affairs, coupled with the emergence of carbapenem-resistant bacteria. The ways of response to challenges of antibiotic resistance (AR) such as the development of novel strategies in the search of new antibiotics, designing more effective preventive measures as well as the ecology of AR have been discussed. The applications of plant extract and chemical compounds like nanomaterials which are based on recent developments in the field of antimicrobials, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and chemotherapy were briefly discussed. The agencies responsible for environmental protection have a role to play in dealing with the climate crisis which poses an existential threat to the planet, and contributes to ecological support towards pathogenic microorganisms. The environment serves as a reservoir and also a vehicle for transmission of antimicrobial resistance genes hence, as dominant inhabitants we have to gain a competitive advantage in the battle against AMR.

Indexed as

BiotechnologyCarbapenemEnterobacter cloacaeEnterobacteriaceaeEnvironmental healthEnvironmental pollutionEnvironmental scienceEpidemiologyEscherichia coliKlebsiella pneumoniaeMicrobiologySalmonella spp.

Identifiers

PMID32420480
PMCPMC7215200

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