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ArticleThe Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy2024

Beyond the FIC index: the extended information from fractional inhibitory concentrations (FICs).

Nikos Fatsis-Kavalopoulos, Dione L Sánchez-Hevia, Dan I Andersson

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Article in The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35citing papers in PubMed
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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 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

3 authors.

Nikos Fatsis-KavalopoulosDepartment of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, UppsalaSweden.ORCID 0000-0002-5081-0138
Dione L Sánchez-HeviaDepartment of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, UppsalaSweden.
Dan I AnderssonDepartment of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, UppsalaSweden.

Funding

Knut and Alice Wallenberg FoundationSwedish Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Microbial Sensitivity TestsAnti-Bacterial AgentsHumansAnti-Bacterial Agents

Identifiers

PMID38997227
PMCPMC11368421

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