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ArticleCase reports in infectious diseases2026

Case Report of a Solitary Brain Abscess due to

Lauren Wells, Madeleine Purcell, Lo Tamburro, Joel V Chua, Nazary Nebeluk, James B Doub

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Article in Case reports in infectious diseases, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Case Report of a Solitary Brain Abscess due toCase reports in infectious diseases · 2026
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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.

Lauren WellsDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, umaryland.edu.
Madeleine PurcellDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, umaryland.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5753-8029
Lo TamburroDepartment of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, umaryland.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2571-5491
Joel V ChuaDivision of Clinical Care and Research, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, umaryland.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7579-4672
Nazary NebelukDivision of Clinical Care and Research, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, umaryland.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3426-7005
James B DoubDivision of Clinical Care and Research, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, umaryland.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4977-0968

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nocardiosis is a rare bacterial infection caused by a wide array of species of the genus

Indexed as

brain abscessNocardia veterananocardiosistrimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole

Identifiers

PMID42158570
PMCPMC13181143

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