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ArticlemBio2016

Oxygen as a Virulence Determinant in Polymicrobial Infections.

Elizabeth M Selleck, Michael S Gilmore

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Article in mBio, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact, top 92% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Experimental Inoculation ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024
    Article
  2. Transposon mutagenesis in oralJournal of oral microbiology · 2022
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elizabeth M SelleckDepartment of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0213-1250
Michael S GilmoreDepartment of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Michael_Gilmore@meei.harvard.edu.
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary · US

Funding

Technical Mother Machine CoreP01AI083214 · NIAID · SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI Michael S Gilmore · 2009 to 2026
$39.4M
Training Program in the Molecular Bases of Eye DiseasesT32EY007145 · NEI · SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI Patricia Ann D'Amore, MEREDITH GREGORY-KSANDER · 1997 to 2026
$4.5M
NEI NIH HHS T32 EY007145NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI083214
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infections caused by multiple organisms, or polymicrobial infections, are likely more common than is broadly appreciated. Interaction among microbial communities (and with their host) can change the infection landscape by subverting immunity, providing nutrients and inhibiting competing microbes. Stacy et al. (A. Stacy, D. Fleming, R. J. Lamont, K. P. Rumbaugh, and M. Whiteley, mBio 7:e00782-16, 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00782-16) described a novel mechanism that results in synergistic growth of oral microbes Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans and Streptococcus gordonii The authors used whole-genome fitness profiling by transposon sequencing (Tn-seq) to identify genes differentially required for growth in vitro versus in a mono- or coinfection in a thigh abscess model. They found that coinfection with S. gordonii allowed A. actinomycetemcomitans to shift from an anaerobic to an aerobic mode of growth. This shift involved the production of a terminal electron acceptor H2O2 by S. gordonii and increased A. actinomycetemcomitans persistence-an interaction termed "cross-respiration."

Indexed as

CoinfectionOxygenHydrogen PeroxideStreptococcus gordoniiVirulenceHydrogen PeroxideOxygen

Identifiers

PMID27531913
PMCPMC4992978
OpenAlexW2508557411

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