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ArticleCureus2020

Group B Streptococcus Osteomyelitis in a Healthy Adolescent.

Andrew Wahba, Rafik ElBeblawy

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In one paragraph

Article in Cureus, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact, top 83% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrew WahbaPediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston McGovern Medical School, Houston, USA.
Rafik ElBeblawyInfectious Diseases, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, USA.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Group B Streptococcus (GBS), Streptococcus agalactiae, is a bacterium often screened for pregnant women and associated with neonatal infections. However, GBS disease is also rising among non-pregnant adults, especially among immunocompromised patients. The median age of non-pregnant adults with invasive GBS disease is 64 years. It can present as skin and soft tissue infection, osteomyelitis, pneumonia, urosepsis, and meningitis. There is very limited data on GBS disease occurring in the pediatric population past the infancy stage. In this report, we present a case of a 16-year-old male with GBS osteomyelitis.

Indexed as

adolescentgroup b streptococcusosteomyelitis

Identifiers

PMID33163302
PMCPMC7643252
OpenAlexW3090336212

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Registered trials

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