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ReviewFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology2017

From Many Hosts, One Accidental Pathogen: The Diverse Protozoan Hosts of

David K Boamah, Guangqi Zhou, Alexander W Ensminger, Tamara J O'Connor

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 111 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
111citing papers in PubMed
11.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

111 citing papers in PubMed, 200 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

David K BoamahDepartment of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Guangqi ZhouDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Alexander W EnsmingerDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Tamara J O'ConnorDepartment of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Johns Hopkins Medicine · USUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

Identifying genes essential for Legionella persistence and transmissionR21AI119580 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI O'CONNOR, TAMARA · 2015 to 2016
$446k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI119580
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The 1976 outbreak of Legionnaires' disease led to the discovery of the intracellular bacterial pathogen

Indexed as

Host-Pathogen InteractionsAcanthamoebaAmoebaAmoebidaBiodiversityBiological EvolutionEnvironmentHartmannellaLegionellaLegionella pneumophilaLegionnaires' DiseaseMacrophages, AlveolarNaegleriaAcanthamoebaeamoebaeenvironmentHartmannellahost rangeLegionellaNaegleriaprotozoa

Identifiers

PMID29250488
PMCPMC5714891
OpenAlexW2771040219

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Registered trials

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