Commentary on "Oral purified bacterial extracts in acute respiratory tract infections in childhood: a systematic review".

What it found

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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.

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.

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Sublingual therapeutic immunization with a polyvalent bacterial preparation in patients with recurrent respiratory infections: immunomodulatory effect on antigen-specific memory CD4+ T cells and impact on clinical outcome.Clinical and experimental immunology · 2011
   Trial
2. Bacterial immunotherapy is highly effective in reducing recurrent upper respiratory tract infections in children: a prospective observational study.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2023
   Observational
3. Prevention of respiratory tract infections with bacterial lysate OM-85 bronchomunal in children and adults: a state of the art.Multidisciplinary respiratory medicine · 2013
   Article
4. Selective activation of human dendritic cells by OM-85 through a NF-kB and MAPK dependent pathway.PloS one · 2013
   Article

Corrections and comments

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  Oral purified bacterial extracts in acute respiratory tract infections in childhood: a systematic quantitative review.2007

Authors and funding

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Abstract

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