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ReviewCureus2025

Fusobacterium nucleatum as an Emerging Culprit in Brain Abscesses: A Narrative Synthesis of 25 Years of Clinical and Diagnostic Data.

Fiza Ismail, Usama Mansoor, Haseeb Mehmood Qadri, Musharaf Zaman, Asim Ali, Muhammad Ans Asif, Muhammad Kaleem, Haysum Khan, Raahim A Bashir, Sundas Irshad and 1 more

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Review in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. World journal of clinical pediatrics · 2026
    Article
  2. Cancers · 2025
    Review
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

11 authors.

Fiza IsmailSurgery, Lahore General Hospital, Lahore, PAK.
Usama MansoorNeurological Surgery, Punjab Institute of Neurosciences, Lahore, PAK.
Haseeb Mehmood QadriGeneral Surgery, Lahore General Hospital, Lahore, PAK.
Musharaf ZamanAnesthesia and Critical Care, Pakistan Red Crescent Teaching Hospital, Kasur, PAK.
Asim AliGeneral Surgery, Lahore General Hospital, Lahore, PAK.
Muhammad Ans AsifGeneral Surgery, Ghurki Trust Teaching Hospital, Lahore, PAK.
Muhammad KaleemRadiology, Lahore General Hospital, Lahore, PAK.
Haysum KhanNeurological Surgery, Shifa College of Medicine, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad, PAK.
Raahim A BashirNeurological Surgery, Punjab Institute of Neurosciences, Lahore, PAK.
Sundas IrshadNeurological Surgery, Punjab Institute of Neurosciences, Lahore, PAK.
Asif BashirNeurological Surgery, Punjab Institute of Neurosciences, Lahore, PAK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brain abscesses are life-threatening infections, predominantly caused by anaerobic organisms. The role of oropharyngeal microbiota, presence in dental plaque biofilms, and hematogenous spread is established in the literature. However, due to its rare occurrence, limited literature is available on its management. The rationale of this narrative review was to elucidate risk factors, treatment strategies, and outcomes of brain abscesses caused by

Indexed as

anaerobebrain abscesscentral nervous system infectionsemerging rare pathogenevidencefusobacteriumgram negativerare infectionreviewsuppuration

Identifiers

PMID40918852
PMCPMC12412268

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