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ArticleMicroorganisms2020

Disinfectant, Soap or Probiotic Cleaning? Surface Microbiome Diversity and Biofilm Competitive Exclusion.

Wendy Stone, Janke Tolmay, Keira Tucker, Gideon M Wolfaardt

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Article in Microorganisms, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 24% 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

20 citing papers in PubMed, 34 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Wendy StoneEnvironmental Microbiology Laboratory, Water Institute, Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, 7602 Stellenbosch, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-9126-6362
Janke TolmayEnvironmental Microbiology Laboratory, Water Institute, Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, 7602 Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Keira TuckerEnvironmental Microbiology Laboratory, Water Institute, Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, 7602 Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Gideon M WolfaardtEnvironmental Microbiology Laboratory, Water Institute, Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, 7602 Stellenbosch, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-2816-490X
Stellenbosch University · ZA

Funding

Claude Leon Foundation N/A
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study extends probiotic cleaning research to a built environment. Through an eight-month cleaning trial, we compared the effect of three cleaning products (disinfectant, plain soap, and a probiotic cleaner containing a patented

Indexed as

biofilm competitioncleaning regimeprobiotic diversityspecies competitionsurface communities

Identifiers

PMID33158159
PMCPMC7694204
OpenAlexW3095148959

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