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ReviewTrends in microbiology2018

Chlamydia Spreading from the Genital Tract to the Gastrointestinal Tract - A Two-Hit Hypothesis.

Guangming Zhong

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Review in Trends in microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
44citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

44 citing papers in PubMed, 53 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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Guangming ZhongDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Health, Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA. Electronic address: Zhongg@UTHSCSA.edu.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · US

Funding

MECHANISMS OF CHLAMYDIAL EVASION OF IMMUNE RECOGNATIONR01AI047997 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI ZHONG, GUANGMING · 2000 to 2021
$6.9M
Chlamydial plasmid-dependent pathogenesisR01AI121989 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI ZHONG, GUANGMING · 2016 to 2019
$1.9M
Chlamydia Vaccine---Global search for chlamydial T cell antigens in HLA-DR4 transgenic miceR21AI105712 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI ZHONG, GUANGMING · 2016 to 2017
$426k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI047997NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI121989NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI105712
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chlamydia trachomatis, a leading bacterial cause of sexually transmitted infection-induced infertility, is frequently detected in the gastrointestinal tract. Chlamydia muridarum, a model pathogen for investigating C. trachomatis pathogenesis, readily spreads from the mouse genital tract to the gastrointestinal tract, establishing long-lasting colonization. C. muridarum mutants, despite their ability to activate acute oviduct inflammation, are attenuated in inducing tubal fibrosis and are no longer able to colonize the gastrointestinal tract, suggesting that the spread of C. muridarum to the gastrointestinal tract may contribute to its pathogenicity in the upper genital tract. However, gastrointestinal C. muridarum cannot directly autoinoculate the genital tract. Both antigen-specific CD8

Indexed as

AnimalsAntigens, BacterialCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesChlamydiaChlamydia InfectionsChlamydia muridarumChlamydia trachomatisCytokinesDisease Models, AnimalFibrosisGastrointestinal TractGenitaliaHumansMiceReproductive Tract InfectionsSexually Transmitted DiseasesAntigens, BacterialCytokinesVirulence Factors

Identifiers

PMID29289422
PMCPMC6003826
OpenAlexW2777826045

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