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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2021

Cefiderocol Retains Antibiofilm Activity in Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Pathogens.

Christine A Pybus, Christina Felder-Scott, Victor Obuekwe, David E Greenberg

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 26% 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, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Antibiofilm approaches as a new paradigm for treating infections.Progress in biomedical engineering (Bristol, England) · 2024
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  14. Frontiers in microbiology · 2023
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  15. Successful Treatment of Aortic Endocarditis byAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  16. NovelPharmaceutics · 2022
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  18. New Perspectives on Antimicrobial Agents: Cefiderocol.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2021
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  20. Cefiderocol forTherapeutic advances in infectious disease
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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 1 country.

Christine A PybusDepartment of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Christina Felder-ScottSchool of Health Professions, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Victor ObuekweDepartment of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, USA.
David E GreenbergDepartment of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, USA David.Greenberg@utsouthwestern.edu.
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cefiderocol is a siderophore cephalosporin with potent antibacterial activity against a broad range of Gram-negative pathogens, including multidrug-resistant strains. Siderophore antibiotics bind ferric iron and utilize iron transporters to cross the cell membrane. In the biofilm setting, where antibiotic resistance is high but iron scavenging is important, cefiderocol may have advantageous antimicrobial properties. In this study, we compared the antimicrobial activity of cefiderocol to that of seven commonly used antibiotics in well-characterized multidrug-resistant pathogens and then determined their efficacy in the biofilm setting. MIC

Indexed as

Gram-Negative BacteriaGram-Negative Bacterial InfectionsAnti-Bacterial AgentsBiofilmsCefiderocolCephalosporinsDrug Resistance, Multiple, BacterialHumansMicrobial Sensitivity TestsPseudomonas aeruginosaAnti-Bacterial AgentsCefiderocolCephalosporinsbiofilmscefiderocolGram negativesmultidrug resistance

Identifiers

PMID33199383
PMCPMC7849010
OpenAlexW3099724288

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Registered trials

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