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ArticlePharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Biofilm Inhibition and Eradication Properties of Medicinal Plant Essential Oils against Methicillin-Resistant

Fethi Ben Abdallah, Rihab Lagha, Ahmed Gaber

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Article in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
28citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Prevention and Treatment ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  10. Efficacy of Chlorogenic Acid Combined With Cefazolin Against Methicillin-ResistantThe Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2025
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  13. Antimicrobial and Antibiofilm Activity ofMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  18. Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Fethi Ben AbdallahDepartment of Biology, College of Sciences, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-5435-9268
Rihab LaghaDepartment of Biology, College of Sciences, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia.
Ahmed GaberDepartment of Biology, College of Sciences, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia.
University of Monastir · TNCairo University · EG

Funding

Taif University TURSP-2020/39
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Methicillin-resistant

Indexed as

antibacterialbiofilm inhibition and eradicationessential oilsmethicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusOriganum majoranaRosmarinus officinalisThymus zygis

Identifiers

PMID33171909
PMCPMC7694456
OpenAlexW3097905034

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Registered trials

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