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ReviewPLoS pathogens2017

False friends: Phagocytes as Trojan horses in microbial brain infections.

Felipe H Santiago-Tirado, Tamara L Doering

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In one paragraph

Review in PLoS pathogens, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
36citing papers in PubMed
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

36 citing papers in PubMed, 64 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. A comprehensive review of neurotropic fungal infections: clinical manifestations and vaccines.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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  8. Lack of an atypical PDR transporter generates an immunogenicbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  9. Cryptococcal nutrient acquisition and pathogenesis: dining on the host.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2025
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  13. Immune evasion byFrontiers in immunology · 2024
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  14. Innate Pulmonary Phagocytes and Their Interactions with PathogenicJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  16. Mechanisms ofJournal of oral microbiology · 2023
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Felipe H Santiago-TiradoDepartment of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-6453-4904
Tamara L DoeringDepartment of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-5179-7393
Washington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

Infectious Diseases/Basic Microbial Pathogenic MechanismsT32AI007172 · NIAID · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Daniel E. Goldberg, JENNIFER A PHILIPS · 1985 to 2026
$13.0M
HOST FACTORS IN CRYPTOCOCCAL PATHOGENESISR01AI102882 · NIAID · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI DOERING, TAMARA L · 2013 to 2017
$2.2M
CRYPTOCOCCAL INTERACTIONS WITH HOST CELLSR01AI078795 · NIAID · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI DOERING, TAMARA L · 2009 to 2013
$2.0M
ENDOTHELIAL FACTORS IN CRYPTOCOCCAL MIGRATION ACROSS THE BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIERR21AI114549 · NIAID · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI DOERING, TAMARA L · 2015 to 2016
$419k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI078795NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI102882NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI114549NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007172NIH HHS AI078795NIH HHS AI102882NIH HHS AI114549NIH HHS T32 AI007172
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BrainHumansMeningitisPhagocytes

Identifiers

PMID29240825
PMCPMC5730104
OpenAlexW2773101148

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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