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ArticlePLoS biology2018

Reconciling Pasteur and Darwin to control infectious diseases.

Samuel Alizon, Pierre-Olivier Méthot

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Article in PLoS biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Pathogen evasion of social immunity.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023
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  3. [Sars-CoV-2 genomic and phylodynamic analyses].Revue francophone des laboratoires : RFL · 2020
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  6. Modelling the evolution of viral oncogenesis.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Samuel AlizonLaboratoire MIVEGEC (UMR CNRS 5290, UR IRD 224, UM), Montpellier, France.ORCID 0000-0002-0779-9543
Pierre-Olivier MéthotFaculté de Philosophie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRUniversité Laval · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The continual emergence of new pathogens and the increased spread of antibiotic resistance in bacterial populations remind us that microbes are living entities that evolve at rates that impact public health interventions. Following the historical thread of the works of Pasteur and Darwin shows how reconciling clinical microbiology, ecology, and evolution can be instrumental to understanding pathology, developing new therapies, and prolonging the efficiency of existing ones.

Indexed as

Anti-Bacterial AgentsBiological EvolutionCommunicable DiseasesDrug Resistance, MicrobialHumansSelection, GeneticVirulenceAnti-Bacterial Agents

Identifiers

PMID29346373
PMCPMC5790281
OpenAlexW2783684175

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Registered trials

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