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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2025

The anti-biofilm compound 4-ethoxybenzoic acid inhibits

Caroline C Taylor, Adonis Aviles-Gonzalez, Alexander Marchesani, Christina Kiessling, Travis Patrick, Linxin Chen, Haozhe Yao, Zixuan Li, Abbie Seward, Kuk-Jeong Chin and 1 more

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited 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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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

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No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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.

Caroline C TaylorDepartment of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Adonis Aviles-GonzalezDepartment of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Alexander MarchesaniDepartment of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Christina KiesslingDepartment of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Travis PatrickDepartment of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Linxin ChenDepartment of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Haozhe YaoDepartment of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Zixuan LiDepartment of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Abbie SewardDepartment of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Kuk-Jeong ChinDepartment of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Eric S GilbertDepartment of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is a need for dual action anti-virulence and anti-biofilm agents that target the opportunistic pathogen

Indexed as

4-ethoxybenzoic acidantimicrobial resistanceanti-virulencebiofilminfectious diseaseStaphylococcus aureus

Identifiers

PMID41704850
PMCPMC12907329

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