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ArticleRespiratory medicine case reports2020

A case of pulmonary

Eriko Iitoh, Masaki Tominaga, Masaki Okamoto, Yuki Sakazaki, Masayuki Nakamura, Takashi Kinoshita, Tomotaka Kawayama, Tomoaki Hoshino

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In one paragraph

Article in Respiratory medicine case reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 28% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 8 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

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Eriko IitohDivision of Respirology, Neurology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, 830-0011, Japan.
Masaki TominagaDivision of Respirology, Neurology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, 830-0011, Japan.
Masaki OkamotoDivision of Respirology, Neurology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, 830-0011, Japan.
Yuki SakazakiDivision of Respirology, Neurology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, 830-0011, Japan.
Masayuki NakamuraDivision of Respirology, Neurology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, 830-0011, Japan.
Takashi KinoshitaDivision of Respirology, Neurology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, 830-0011, Japan.
Tomotaka KawayamaDivision of Respirology, Neurology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, 830-0011, Japan.
Tomoaki HoshinoDivision of Respirology, Neurology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, 830-0011, Japan.
Kurume University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 72-year-old man, healthy, smoker, with long-standing cough, was referred to our hospital and his chest X-ray (CXR) revealed a cavity lesion in the right upper lobe. Direct sputum smears, but not culture in solid medium, were positive for acid-fast bacilli (AFB) without tuberculosis DNA. The preliminary diagnosis was of a non-tuberculosis infection that progressed slowly, and the CXR showed the condition to worsen daily. Four years later, a commercialized mycobacteria growth indicator tube system was used to culture the colonies of AFB successfully in liquid medium, and the species

Indexed as

AFB, acid-fast bacilliCAM, clarithromycinCT, computed tomographyCXR, chest x-rayDDH, DNA–DNA hybridizationEB, ethambutolMAC, Mycobacterium avium complexMALDI-TOF MSMALDI-TOF MS, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometryMatrix assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometryMGIT, mycobacteria growth indicator tubeMIC, minimum inhibitory concentrationM, MycobacteriumMTB, Mycobacterium tuberculosisMycobacterium heckeshornenseMycobacterium xenopiNon-tuberculous mycobacterium infectionNTM, nontuberculous mycobacteriaPCR, polymerase chain reactionRE, rifampicin plus ethambutolRFP, rifampicinrRNA, ribosomal RNA

Identifiers

PMID32489849
PMCPMC7256317
OpenAlexW3024735848

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