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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2023

Point-Counterpoint: What's in a Name? Clinical Microbiology Laboratories Should Use Nomenclature Based on Current Taxonomy.

Karen C Carroll, Erik Munson, Susan M Butler-Wu, Sheila Patrick

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 14 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 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Karen C CarrollDivision of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8080-5391
Erik MunsonDepartment of Medical Laboratory Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5359-6643
Susan M Butler-WuDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5372-8706
Sheila PatrickWellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom.
Johns Hopkins University · USKeck Hospital of USC · USMarquette University · USQueen's University Belfast · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Enterobacter aerogenesLaboratoriesBacteriaHumansnomenclaturephylogenomicsprokaryotestaxataxonomy

Identifiers

PMID36625570
PMCPMC9879091
OpenAlexW4315435533

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