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ArticleFuture microbiology2017

Nonantimicrobial drug targets for Clostridium difficile infections.

Charles Darkoh, Magdalena Deaton, Herbert L DuPont

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Article in Future microbiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 41% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Biofilm Formation ofMicroorganisms · 2023
    Review
  3. Article
  4. Doctor, my patient has CDI and should continue to receive antibiotics. The (unresolved) risk of recurrent CDI.Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia · 2019
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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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Charles DarkohDepartment of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, & Environmental Sciences, Center For Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Magdalena DeatonDepartment of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, & Environmental Sciences, Center For Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Herbert L DuPontDepartment of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, & Environmental Sciences, Center For Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston · US

Funding

Molecular Basis of Infectious Diseases Training GrantT32AI055449 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI LORENZ, MICHAEL C · 2005 to 2025
$2.6M
Targeting the Toxins: A Novel Non-Antimicrobial Approach to Combat Clostridium difficile infectionsR01AI116914 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI DARKOH, CHARLES · 2015 to 2019
$1.9M
NIAID NIH HHS L30 AI126518NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI116914NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI055449
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a major public health problem worldwide. Treatment has become complicated due to the emergence of strains with increased toxigenicity and sporulation rate, together with rampant antibiotics use that disrupts colonization resistance of the colonic microbiota. As a result, there is a critical need for nonantibiotic treatments. Therapies based on inhibiting the toxins, bacterial structures responsible for colonization, virulence and restoration of the gut microbiota are the most important nonantibiotic targets to combat CDI. This report outlines these targets and how they could become the focus of future therapeutic agents. Inhibiting colonization and virulence factors during CDI will disrupt pathogen persistence and decrease exposure to the inflammatory toxins, allowing the immune system to clear the infection.

Indexed as

AnimalsAnti-Bacterial AgentsAntibodies, MonoclonalBacterial ProteinsBacterial ToxinsClostridioides difficileClostridium InfectionsGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHumansImmunotherapyQuorum SensingVirulenceVirulence FactorsAnti-Bacterial AgentsAntibodies, MonoclonalBacterial ProteinsBacterial ToxinsVirulence FactorsClostridium difficile nonantibiotic targetsClostridium difficile nonantibiotic therapyClostridium difficile pathogenesisClostridium difficile toxinsquorum sensing inhibitors

Identifiers

PMID28759258
PMCPMC5618939
OpenAlexW2740961745

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Registered trials

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