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ReviewPathogens and disease2015

Infection with Chlamydia pneumoniae as a cause of coronary heart disease: the hypothesis is still untested.

J Thomas Grayston, Robert J Belland, Gerald I Byrne, Cho Chou Kuo, Julius Schachter, Walter E Stamm, Guangming Zhong

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Review in Pathogens and disease, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026
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  4. The Journal of biological chemistry · 2020
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  5. AssayingMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
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  13. Infection and Atherosclerosis Development.Archives of medical research · 2015
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  14. Immunopathogenesis of Chlamydial Infections.Current topics in microbiology and immunology
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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

7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

J Thomas GraystonDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Box 357236, Seattle, WA 98195-7326, USA grayston@uw.edu.
Robert J BellandDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee, Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA.
Gerald I ByrneDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee, Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA.
Cho Chou KuoDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Box 357236, Seattle, WA 98195-7326, USA.
Julius SchachterDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Walter E StammDepartment of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Guangming ZhongDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA.
University of Washington · USUniversity of Tennessee Health Science Center · USThe University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

IMMUNITY AND LATENCY TO CHLAMYDIAL INFECTIONSR01AI019782 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON · PI BYRNE, GERALD IRWIN · 1985 to 2014
$4.7M
Vascular Molecular Pathogenesis of Chlamydia pneumoniaeR01HL071735 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCI CTR · PI BYRNE, GERALD IRWIN · 2002 to 2005
$1.4M
CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE AND MACROPHAGES IN ATHEROSCLEROSISR01AI042790 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON · PI BYRNE, GERALD IRWIN · 1999 to 2003
$983k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL071735NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI019782NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI042790
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overAnimalsAtherosclerosisChildChild, PreschoolChlamydophila InfectionsChlamydophila pneumoniaeCoronary DiseaseFemaleHumansInfantInfant, NewbornMaleantibioticclinical trialstreatment

Identifiers

PMID25854002
PMCPMC4492408
OpenAlexW2074381469

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Registered trials

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