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ArticleBiofilm2024

Plasma activated water pre-treatment substantially enhances phage activity against

Akash Shambharkar, Thomas P Thompson, Laura A McClenaghan, Paula Bourke, Brendan F Gilmore, Timofey Skvortsov

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Article in Biofilm, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 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

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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

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

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  3. Biofilm sensitization to breakJournal of medical microbiology · 2026
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  9. Cold plasma for enhanced water purification.Sustainable microbiology · 2024
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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

6 authors.

Akash ShambharkarSchool of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast, Medical Biology Centre, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT9 7BL, UK.
Thomas P ThompsonSchool of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast, Medical Biology Centre, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT9 7BL, UK.
Laura A McClenaghanSchool of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast, Medical Biology Centre, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT9 7BL, UK.
Paula BourkePlasma Research Group, School of Biosystems and Food Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Brendan F GilmoreSchool of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast, Medical Biology Centre, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT9 7BL, UK.
Timofey SkvortsovSchool of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast, Medical Biology Centre, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT9 7BL, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ongoing antimicrobial resistance crisis has incentivised research into alternative antibacterial and antibiofilm agents. One of them is plasma-activated water (PAW), which is produced by exposing water to a cold plasma discharge. This process generates a diverse array of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS/RNS) with antimicrobial properties. Another intensively studied class of alternative antimicrobials are bacteriophages, attracting attention due to their specificity and strong antibacterial activity. As combinations of different types of antimicrobials are known to often exhibit synergistic interactions, in this study we investigated the combined use of cold atmospheric-pressure plasma-activated water and the bacteriophage vB_PmiS_PM-CJR against

Indexed as

BacteriophageBiofilmsCold plasmaPhagePlasma activated waterProteus mirabilisUrinary tract infections

Identifiers

PMID39498232
PMCPMC11532937

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