ReviewMicrobiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR2010
Microbe hunting.
Review in Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers.
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
67 citing papers in PubMed.
- Interpreting Viral Associations in Neurodegenerative Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Widespread human exposure to ledanteviruses in Uganda: A population study.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Insights from myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome may help unravel the pathogenesis of postacute COVID-19 syndrome.Trends in molecular medicine · 2021Review
- Metagenomic analysis of the dust particles collected from the suction tube and the suction funnel of a dermatological laser smoke evacuator system.Lasers in medical science · 2021Article
- STROBE-metagenomics: a STROBE extension statement to guide the reporting of metagenomics studies.The Lancet. Infectious diseases · 2020Review
- Precision Surveillance for Viral Respiratory Pathogens: Virome Capture Sequencing for the Detection and Genomic Characterization of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection in Uganda.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2019Article
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- Nanopore-based detection and characterization of yam viruses.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Laboratory Methods in Molecular Epidemiology: Viral Infections.Microbiology spectrum · 2018Review
- Virological and Immunological Outcomes of Coinfections.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2018Review
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- Spondyloarthritis, Acute Anterior Uveitis, and Fungi: Updating the Catterall-King Hypothesis.Frontiers in medicine · 2018Article
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- Metagenomics Study of Viral Pathogens in Undiagnosed Respiratory Specimens and Identification of Human Enteroviruses at a Thailand Hospital.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2016Article
- Complementary approaches to diagnosing marine diseases: a union of the modern and the classic.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016Review
- Next-generation sequencing in clinical virology: Discovery of new viruses.World journal of virology · 2015Review
- leBIBIQBPP: a set of databases and a webtool for automatic phylogenetic analysis of prokaryotic sequences.BMC bioinformatics · 2015Article
- Discovery of novel rhabdoviruses in the blood of healthy individuals from West Africa.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2015Article
- Luciferase immunoprecipitation systems for measuring antibodies in autoimmune and infectious diseases.Translational research : the journal of laboratory and clinical medicine · 2015Review
7 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
1 author.
Funding
Abstract
Platforms for pathogen discovery have improved since the days of Koch and Pasteur; nonetheless, the challenges of proving causation are at least as daunting as they were in the late 1800 s. Although we will almost certainly continue to accumulate low-hanging fruit, where simple relationships will be found between the presence of a cultivatable agent and a disease, these successes will be increasingly infrequent. The future of the field rests instead in our ability to follow footprints of infectious agents that cannot be characterized using classical microbiological techniques and to develop the laboratory and computational infrastructure required to dissect complex host-microbe interactions. I have tried to refine the criteria used by Koch and successors to prove linkage to disease. These refinements are working constructs that will continue to evolve in light of new technologies, new models, and new insights. What will endure is the excitement of the chase. Happy hunting!
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