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ArticleAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2024

A Difficult Case of Ventriculitis in a 40-Year-Old Woman with Acute Myeloid Leukemia.

Raffaella Rubino, Marcello Trizzino, Luca Pipitò, Giuseppe Sucato, Marco Santoro, Rosario Maugeri, Domenico Gerardo Iacopino, Giovanni Maurizio Giammanco, Sergio Siragusa, Antonio Cascio

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Article in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 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

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

  1. Central nervous system infections caused by carbapenem-resistant klebsiella pneumoniae after CAR T-cell therapy in a patient with preexisting colonization: a case report and literature review.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2026
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  4. Meropenem-vaborbactam as intrathecal-sparing therapy for the treatment of carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae shunt-related ventriculitis: two case reports and review of the literature.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2025
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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

10 authors.

Raffaella RubinoInfectious and Tropical Diseases Unit, Sicilian Regional Reference Center for the Fight against AIDS, AOU Policlinico "P. Giaccone", 90127 Palermo, Italy.
Marcello TrizzinoInfectious and Tropical Diseases Unit, Sicilian Regional Reference Center for the Fight against AIDS, AOU Policlinico "P. Giaccone", 90127 Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8105-5139
Luca PipitòInfectious and Tropical Diseases Unit, Department of Health Promotion, Mother and Child Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties "G. D'Alessandro", University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1871-4285
Giuseppe SucatoHematology Unit, University Hospital Paolo Giaccone, 90127 Palermo, Italy.
Marco SantoroHematology Unit, University Hospital Paolo Giaccone, 90127 Palermo, Italy.
Rosario MaugeriNeurosurgical Clinic, AOU Policlinico "P. Giaccone", Post Graduate Residency Program in Neurologic Surgery, Department of Biomedicine Neurosciences and Advanced Diagnostics, School of Medicine, University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy.
Domenico Gerardo IacopinoNeurosurgical Clinic, AOU Policlinico "P. Giaccone", Post Graduate Residency Program in Neurologic Surgery, Department of Biomedicine Neurosciences and Advanced Diagnostics, School of Medicine, University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy.
Giovanni Maurizio GiammancoUOC of Microbiology, Virology and Parasitology, Department of Health Promotion, Mother and Child Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties "G. D'Alessandro", University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7874-6289
Sergio SiragusaHematology Unit, University Hospital Paolo Giaccone, 90127 Palermo, Italy.
Antonio CascioInfectious and Tropical Diseases Unit, Sicilian Regional Reference Center for the Fight against AIDS, AOU Policlinico "P. Giaccone", 90127 Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1992-1796

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ventriculitis and nosocomial meningitis caused by carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative and vancomycin-resistant Gram-positive bacteria represent a growing treatment challenge. A case of ventriculitis and bacteremia caused by carbapenem-resistant, KPC-producing

Indexed as

central nervous system infectionmeropenem/vaborbactammultidrug resistanceventriculitis

Identifiers

PMID38786160
PMCPMC11117259

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