Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29473021›Full record

ReviewFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology2018

Duolong Zhu, Joseph A Sorg, Xingmin Sun

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Review in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 102 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
102citing papers in PubMed
8.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

102 citing papers in PubMed, 152 citations in OpenAlex.

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42 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Duolong ZhuDepartment of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States.
Joseph A SorgDepartment of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States.
Xingmin SunDepartment of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States.
University of South Florida · USTexas A&M University · US

Funding

Mechanisms of Clostridium difficile spore germinationR01AI116895 · NIAID · TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY · PI SORG, JOE · 2015 to 2024
$3.9M
Multivalent vaccines against Clostridium difficile infectionR01AI132711 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA · PI Xingmin Sun, Shifeng Wang · 2017 to 2026
$3.3M
Signaling pathway of TNF-alpha production and Clostridium difficile infection (CDK01DK092352 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA · PI SUN, XINGMIN · 2012 to 2016
$470k
Multivalent Bacillus mucosal vaccines against Clostridium difficile infectionR21AI113470 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA · PI SUN, XINGMIN · 2015 to 2016
$438k
The role of tumor progression locus 2 (TPL2) in the pathogenesis of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI)R03DK112004 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA · PI SUN, XINGMIN · 2017 to 2018
$154k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI116895NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI132711NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI113470NIDDK NIH HHS K01 DK092352NIDDK NIH HHS R03 DK112004
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Anti-Bacterial AgentsClostridioides difficileClostridium InfectionsGene Expression Regulation, BacterialHumansSignal TransductionSpores, BacterialAnti-Bacterial AgentsCDIC. difficilegerminationsporessporulation

Identifiers

PMID29473021
PMCPMC5809512
OpenAlexW2792737543

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Registered trials

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