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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2020

Potential Risk of Spreading Resistance Genes within Extracellular-DNA-Dependent Biofilms of Streptococcus mutans in Response to Cell Envelope Stress Induced by Sub-MICs of Bacitracin.

Ryo Nagasawa, Tsutomu Sato, Nobuhiko Nomura, Tomoyo Nakamura, Hidenobu Senpuku

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ryo NagasawaGraduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-3106-7916
Tsutomu SatoGraduate School of Science and Engineering, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan.
Nobuhiko NomuraFaculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.
Tomoyo NakamuraDepartment of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
Hidenobu SenpukuDepartment of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan hsenpuku@nih.go.jp.ORCID 0000-0002-3915-1354
National Institute of Infectious Diseases · JPUniversity of Tsukuba · JPHosei University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antibiotics are used to treat or prevent some types of bacterial infection. The inappropriate use of antibiotics unnecessarily promotes antibiotic resistance and increases resistant bacteria, and controlling these bacteria is difficult. While the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria is a serious problem, the behavior of drug-resistant bacteria is not fully understood. In this study, we investigated the behavior of

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BiofilmsAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacitracinDNA, BacterialDrug Resistance, BacterialGenes, BacterialGenes, MDRGene Transfer, HorizontalMicrobial Sensitivity TestsStreptococcus mutansStress, PhysiologicalAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacitracinDNA, Bacterialbacitracinbiofilmsextracellular DNAhorizontal gene transfermbrCDresistant genesrgp

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PMID32532873
PMCPMC7414966
OpenAlexW3035385260

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