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ReviewDNA and cell biology2017

The Type I Interferon Response and Age-Dependent Susceptibility to Herpes Simplex Virus Infection.

Daniel Giraldo, Douglas R Wilcox, Richard Longnecker

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Review in DNA and cell biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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

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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, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Epidemic evolutionarily stable strategies within an age-structured host population.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  3. Atypical Viral Infections in Gastroenterology.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Daniel GiraldoDepartment of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine , Chicago, Illinois.
Douglas R WilcoxDepartment of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine , Chicago, Illinois.
Richard LongneckerDepartment of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine , Chicago, Illinois.
Northwestern University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) is a highly prevalent human neurotropic pathogen. HSV-1 infection is associated with a variety of diseases ranging from benign orolabial lesions to more serious and even life-threatening conditions such as herpes simplex keratitis and herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE). HSE is a rare occurrence among healthy adult individuals, but newborns are a particularly susceptible population. Type I IFN signaling has been identified as a crucial component of the innate immune response to the control of HSV-1 infection. In this study, we review the contribution of the type I IFN response to controlling HSV-1 infection, and differences in the early host response between adults and newborns that may contribute to the increased susceptibility to infection and central nervous system disease in newborns.

Indexed as

Age FactorsDisease SusceptibilityHerpes SimplexHumansInfant, NewbornInfant, Newborn, DiseasesInterferon Type IRisk FactorsTreatment OutcomeInterferon Type IherpesvirusHSV encephalitisinterferon

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PMID28278385
PMCPMC5421632
OpenAlexW2605827839

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