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ReviewCurrent opinion in infectious diseases2013

Current concepts in host-microbe interaction leading to pneumococcal pneumonia.

Joshua Vernatter, Liise-anne Pirofski

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Review in Current opinion in infectious diseases, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
6.5field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

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

29 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Disease Trends and Mortality From Invasive Pneumococcal Disease: A Long-Term Population-Based Study.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2026
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  5. The Critical Role of NLRP6 Inflammasome inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  10. mBio · 2018
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  14. Determination of neutrophil CD64 expression as a prognostic biomarker in patients with community-acquired pneumonia.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2016
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  16. Pneumococcal Vaccination Strategies. An Update and Perspective.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Joshua VernatterDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA.
Liise-anne Pirofski
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · USMontefiore Medical Center · US

Funding

VARIABLE GENE USE AND PNEUMOCOCCAL IMMUNITY IN AIDSR01AI045459 · NIAID · YESHIVA UNIVERSITY · PI PIROFSKI, LIISE-ANNE · 2000 to 2010
$3.9M
HUMAN T CELLS ANTIGENS OF MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSISR01AI044373 · NIAID · INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI REED, STEVEN GREGORY · 1999 to 2009
$3.7M
MOLECULAR PATHOGENESIS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASEST32AI007506 · NIAID · YESHIVA UNIVERSITY · PI CASADEVALL, ARTURO · 1997 to 2012
$3.7M
VARIABLE GENE DEFECTS AND PNEUMOCOCCAL SUSCEPTIBILITYR01AI044374 · NIAID · YESHIVA UNIVERSITY · PI PIROFSKI, LIISE-ANNE · 2001 to 2010
$2.7M
B cell subsets and immunity to cryptococcosisR01AI097096 · NIAID · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI PIROFSKI, LIISE-ANNE · 2012 to 2016
$2.7M
NIAID NIH HHS 5T32AI007506-15NIAID NIH HHS AI044373NIAID NIH HHS AI045459NIAID NIH HHS AI0970906NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI044374NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI097096NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007506
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewInfection with Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) results in colonization, which can lead to local or invasive disease, of which pneumonia is the most common manifestation. Despite the availability of pneumococcal vaccines, pneumococcal pneumonia is the leading cause of community and inhospital pneumonia in the United States and globally. This article discusses new insights into the pathogenesis of pneumococcal disease. RECENT

findingsThe host-microbe interactions that determine whether pneumococcal colonization will result in clearance or invasive disease are highly complex. This article focuses on new information in three areas that bear on the pathogenesis of pneumococcal disease: factors that govern colonization, the prelude to invasive disease, including effects on colonization and invasion of capsular serotype, pneumolysin, surface proteins that regulate complement deposition, biofilm formation and agglutination; the effect of coinfection with other bacteria and viruses on pneumococcal growth and virulence, including the synergistic effect of influenza virus; and the contribution of the host inflammatory response to the pathogenesis of pneumococcal pneumonia, including the effects of pattern recognition molecules, cells that enhance and modulate inflammation, and therapies that modulate inflammation, such as statins. SUMMARY: Recent research on pneumococcal pathogenesis reveals new mechanisms by which microbial factors govern the ability of pneumococcus to progress from the state of colonization to disease and host inflammatory responses contribute to the development of pneumonia. These mechanisms suggest that therapies which modulate the inflammatory response could hold promise for ameliorating damage stemming from the host inflammatory response in pneumococcal disease.

Indexed as

Host-Pathogen InteractionsHumansPneumonia, PneumococcalStreptococcus pneumoniaeVirulence FactorsVirulence Factors

Identifiers

PMID23571695
PMCPMC4237063
OpenAlexW1971658824

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