Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34259624›Full record

ArticleeLife2021

The role of interspecies recombination in the evolution of antibiotic-resistant pneumococci.

Joshua C D'Aeth, Mark Pg van der Linden, Lesley McGee, Herminia de Lencastre, Paul Turner, Jae-Hoon Song, Stephanie W Lo, Rebecca A Gladstone, Raquel Sá-Leão, Kwan Soo Ko and 6 more

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In one paragraph

Article in eLife, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Artificial Intelligence-Guided Phenotypic Drug Repurposing Against Streptococcus pneumoniae.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  19. Loss of Pde1 function acts as an evolutionary gateway to penicillin resistance inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 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

16 authors.

Joshua C D'AethMRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-9636-9886
Mark Pg van der LindenInstitute for Medical Microbiology, National Reference Center for Streptococci, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
Lesley McGeeRespiratory Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, United States.
Herminia de LencastreLaboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal.
Paul TurnerCambodia Oxford Medical Research Unit, Angkor Hospital for Children, Siem Reap, Cambodia.ORCID 0000-0002-1013-7815
Jae-Hoon SongDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon, Republic of Korea.
Stephanie W LoParasites & Microbes, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom.
Rebecca A GladstoneParasites & Microbes, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom.
Raquel Sá-LeãoLaboratory of Molecular Microbiology of Human Pathogens, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal.
Kwan Soo KoDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-0978-1937
William P HanageCenter for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States.
Robert F BreimanDepartment of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, United States.
Bernard BeallRespiratory Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, United States.
Stephen D BentleyParasites & Microbes, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom.
Nicholas J CroucherMRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-6303-8768
GPS Consortium

Funding

Ecological and genetic contributions to the spread of resistance in pneumococcusR01AI106786 · NIAID · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI HANAGE, WILLIAM · 2013 to 2017
$3.1M
Medical Research Council MR/R015600/1Medical Research Council MR/T016434/1NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI106786Wellcome Trust 098051Wellcome Trust 102169/Z/13/ZWellcome Trust 104169/Z/14/AWellcome Trust 106698Wellcome Trust 206194
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multidrug-resistant

Indexed as

Gene Transfer, HorizontalAnti-Bacterial AgentsDNA Transposable ElementsDrug Resistance, BacterialGenes, BacterialGermanyHumansMacrolidesPhylogenyPneumococcal VaccinesSerogroupSerotypingStreptococcus pneumoniaeAnti-Bacterial AgentsDNA Transposable ElementsMacrolidesPneumococcal VaccinesAMRepidemiologygeneticsgenomicsinfectious diseasemicrobiologyrecombinationstreptococcus pneumoniae

Identifiers

PMID34259624
PMCPMC8321556

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