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ReviewNature2004

Frontal and stealth attack strategies in microbial pathogenesis.

D Scott Merrell, Stanley Falkow

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Review in Nature, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
70citing 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

70 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. The Microbe, the Infection Enigma, and the Host.Annual review of microbiology · 2024
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  7. Neuropsychiatric Symptoms and Tick-Borne Diseases.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2023
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  8. A Standardized Extract ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2022
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  11. Model of bacterial toxin-dependent pathogenesis explains infective dose.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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10 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

2 authors.

D Scott MerrellUniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, Maryland 20814, USA. dmerrell@usuhs.mil
Stanley Falkow

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Interactions between microbes and human hosts can range from a benign, even symbiotic collaboration to a competition that may turn fatal--resulting in death of the host, the microbe or both. Despite advances that have been made over the past decades in understanding microbial pathogens, more people worldwide still die every year from infectious disease than from any other cause. This highlights the relevance of continuing to probe the mechanisms used by microorganisms to cause disease, and emphasizes the need for new model systems to advance our understanding of host-pathogen interactions.

Indexed as

BartonellaGram-Negative Bacterial InfectionsHelicobacter pyloriHost-Parasite InteractionsHumansSalmonella typhiVibrio

Identifiers

PMID15241423

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Registered trials

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