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ReviewClinical medicine insights. Gastroenterology2013

Appraisal of microbial evolution to commensalism and pathogenicity in humans.

Asit Ranjan Ghosh

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In one paragraph

Review in Clinical medicine insights. Gastroenterology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. TheViruses · 2022
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  3. Review
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  5. Taxonomic Description and Genome Sequence ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2021
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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Asit Ranjan GhoshCentre for Infectious Diseases and Control, Division of Medical Biotechnology, School of Biosciences and Technology, VIT University, India.
Department of Biotechnology · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human body is host to a number of microbes occurring in various forms of host-microbe associations, such as commensals, mutualists, pathogens and opportunistic symbionts. While this association with microbes in certain cases is beneficial to the host, in many other cases it seems to offer no evident benefit or motive. The emergence and re-emergence of newer varieties of infectious diseases with causative agents being strains that were once living in the human system makes it necessary to study the environment and the dynamics under which this host microbe relationship thrives. The present discussion examines this interaction while tracing the origins of this association, and attempts to hypothesize a possible framework of selective pressures that could have lead microbes to inhabit mammalian host systems.

Indexed as

commensalismevolutionhost-microbe interactionhumansmicroflorapathogenicity

Identifiers

PMID24833938
PMCPMC4020404
OpenAlexW2097515690

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Registered trials

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