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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2025

Static vs. cidal: it's not complex; it's simply incorrect.

Brad Spellberg, Noah Wald-Dickler, Paul Holtom, Pascal Meyer-Sautter, Austin Camp, Alejandro Diaz Diaz, Ranya Buhamad, Ali Sebastian Meza Vazquez, Gloria Mayela Aguirre-Garcia, Matthew Stanton and 22 more

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing 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

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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Is static or cidal antibiotic falsifiable?Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 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

32 authors.

Brad SpellbergLos Angeles General Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3632-1709
Noah Wald-DicklerLos Angeles General Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Paul HoltomLos Angeles General Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Pascal Meyer-SautterDepartment of Internal Medicine, Kantonsspital Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland.
Austin CampUnion University College of Pharmacy, Jackson, Tennessee, USA.
Alejandro Diaz DiazDepartment of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Hospital Pablo Tobón Uribe, Hospital General de Medellín, Medellín, Colombia.
Ranya BuhamadJaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Hospital, Ministry of Health, Kuwait, Kuwait.
Ali Sebastian Meza VazquezDepartment of Internal Medicine, Mexican Institute of Social Security, Western National Medical Center, High Specialty Medical Unit, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Gloria Mayela Aguirre-GarciaTecnologico de Monterrey, Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Monterrey, Mexico.
Matthew StantonFroedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Susan M Butler-WuLos Angeles General Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Isabelle ChiuDivision of Infectious Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Zeynep ErgencVaccine Institute, City St. George's University of London, London, United Kingdom.
Guru BhoojhawonDivision of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Driscoll Children's Hospital, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA.
Rita MurriInfectious Diseases Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Alberto Enrico MaraoloSection of Infectious Diseases, Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples Federico II, , Naples, Italy.
Gabriela CabanillaDepartment of Pharmacy, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
Niccolò RiccardiTB Reference Centre and Laboratory, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy.
Vhudzani TshisevheLancet Laboratories, Rustenburg, South Africa.
Curtis BehennaDepartment of Infectious Disease, Ascension St John Medical Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
Karen S WilliamsDepartment of Pharmacy, Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital, Sayre, Pennsylvania, USA.
Wesley D KufelState University of New York at Binghamton School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Binghamton, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7703-096X
Natalia WojciaczykThe Guthrie Clinic, Sayre, Pennsylvania, USA.
Bernardo Vidal PimentelDepartment of Internal Medicine, Hospital da Luz Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Ahmed MuyidiKing Faisal Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Rodrigo P L CostaHospital Mater Dei Salvador, Salvador, Brazil.
Fabrizio MottaDivision of Infectious Diseases, Santa Casa de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Émilie Bortolussi-CourvalFaculté de Médecine et des Sciences de la Santé, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada.
Todd C LeeDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Emily McDonaldDivision of General Internal Medicine, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-0783-0624
Bassam GhanemPharmaceutical Care Department, King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard Health Affairs, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Zachary NelsonHealthPartners and Park Nicollet Health Services, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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antibioticcidalstatic

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PMID40689788
PMCPMC12326958

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