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ArticleJournal of bacteriology2020

The length of lipoteichoic acid polymers controls

Anthony R Hesser, Leigh M Matano, Christopher R Vickery, B McKay Wood, Ace George Santiago, Heidi G Morris, Truc Do, Richard Losick, Suzanne Walker

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Article in Journal of bacteriology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
39citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 16% 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

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

39 citing papers in PubMed, 64 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anthony R HesserDepartment of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5929-6825
Leigh M MatanoDepartment of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Christopher R VickeryDepartment of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
B McKay WoodDepartment of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Ace George SantiagoDepartment of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Heidi G MorrisDepartment of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Truc DoDepartment of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Richard LosickDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Suzanne WalkerDepartment of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA suzanne_walker@hms.harvard.edu.
Harvard University · US

Funding

Technical Mother Machine CoreP01AI083214 · NIAID · SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI Michael S Gilmore · 2009 to 2026
$39.4M
Release of Extracellular DNA during Biofilm Formation in Staphylococcus aureusR01AI139011 · NIAID · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI KAHNE, DANIEL, LOSICK, RICHARD MARC · 2018 to 2022
$3.2M
NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI083214NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI139011
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The opportunistic pathogen

Identifiers

PMID32482719
PMCPMC8404710
OpenAlexW3029360949

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