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ReviewmBio2016

The Importance of First Impressions: Early Events in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection Influence Outcome.

Anthony M Cadena, JoAnne L Flynn, Sarah M Fortune

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Review in mBio, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 83 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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83citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

83 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

3 authors.

Anthony M CadenaDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Immunology Graduate program, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
JoAnne L FlynnDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA joanne@pitt.edu.
Sarah M FortuneDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Disease, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Funding

Autoimmunity and Immunopathology Training ProgramT32AI089443 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI SHLOMCHIK, MARK J · 2010 to 2024
$6.6M
Predicting immune responses that correlate with protection against tuberculosisR01HL110811 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI FLYNN, JOANNE L., KIRSCHNER, DENISE E · 2012 to 2016
$5.9M
The Consequences of Reinfection with M. tuberculosisR01AI114674 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI FLYNN, JOANNE L., FORTUNE, SARAH · 2015 to 2019
$3.4M
Defining how the spectrum of latency affects reactivation of TBR01HL106804 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI FLYNN, JOANNE L., KIRSCHNER, DENISE E · 2010 to 2013
$2.6M
NHLBI NIH HHS HL106804NHLBI NIH HHS HL110811NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL106804NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL110811NIAID NIH HHS AI114674NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI114674NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI089443
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tuberculosis remains a major health threat in much of the world. New vaccines against Mycobacterium tuberculosis are essential for preventing infection, disease, and transmission. However, the host immune responses that need to be induced by an effective vaccine remain unclear. Increasingly, it has become clear that early events in infection are of major importance in the eventual outcome of the infection. Studying such events in humans is challenging, as they occur within the lung and thoracic lymph nodes, and any clinical signs of early infection are relatively nonspecific. Nonetheless, clinical studies and animal models of tuberculosis have provided new insights into the local events that occur in the first few weeks of tuberculosis. Development of an effective vaccine requires a clear understanding of the successful (and detrimental) early host responses against M. tuberculosis, with the goal to improve upon natural immune responses and prevent infection or disease.

Indexed as

AnimalsHumansMycobacterium tuberculosisTuberculosisTuberculosis VaccinesTuberculosis Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID27048801
PMCPMC4817258

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