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ArticleVeterinary sciences2024

The Effect of Metronidazole versus a Synbiotic on Clinical Course and Core Intestinal Microbiota in Dogs with Acute Diarrhea.

Helene Stübing, Jan S Suchodolski, Andrea Reisinger, Melanie Werner, Katrin Hartmann, Stefan Unterer, Kathrin Busch

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Article in Veterinary sciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Helene StübingSmall Animal Clinic, Centre for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, 80539 Munich, Germany.
Jan S SuchodolskiGastrointestinal Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77840, USA.
Andrea ReisingerSmall Animal Clinic, Centre for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, 80539 Munich, Germany.
Melanie WernerClinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
Katrin HartmannSmall Animal Clinic, Centre for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, 80539 Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5256-863X
Stefan UntererClinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
Kathrin BuschSmall Animal Clinic, Centre for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, 80539 Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3107-2440

Funding

NutraPet Systems Deutschland GmbH, Schlaitdorf, Germany
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The usefulness of antibiotics in dogs with acute diarrhea (AD) is controversial. It is also unclear what effect metronidazole has on potential enteropathogens such as

Indexed as

antibioticcanineC. hiranonisclinical improvementC. perfringensE. coliE. faeciumintestinal microbiomeprobiotic

Identifiers

PMID38787169
PMCPMC11125899

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