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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2018

Fungicidal Potency and Mechanisms of θ-Defensins against Multidrug-Resistant Candida Species.

Virginia Basso, Angie Garcia, Dat Q Tran, Justin B Schaal, Patti Tran, Diana Ngole, Younus Aqeel, Prasad Tongaonkar, André J Ouellette, Michael E Selsted

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. The Contribution of Human Antimicrobial Peptides to Fungi.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  5. Current Perspectives of Antifungal Therapy: A Special Focus onJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  11. A Fun-Guide to Innate Immune Responses to Fungal Infections.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  14. Antimicrobial Peptides: An Update on Classifications and Databases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  19. Host Defense Peptides as Templates for Antifungal Drug Development.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
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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

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Virginia Basso *Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Angie Garcia *Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Dat Q TranDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Justin B SchaalDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0069-4917
Patti TranDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Diana NgoleDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Younus AqeelDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Prasad TongaonkarDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
André J OuelletteDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Michael E SelstedDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA selsted@med.usc.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-7152-4739
University of Southern California · US

Funding

USC/NORRIS COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER (CORE) SUPPORTP30CA014089 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI MYLES G COCKBURN · 1985 to 2026
$181.4M
Southern California Clinical and Translational Science InstituteUL1TR001855 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Thomas A Buchanan, Michele D. Kipke · 2016 to 2026
$81.3M
Southern California Clinical and Translational Science InstituteUL1TR000130 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI BUCHANAN, THOMAS A · 2012 to 2015
$36.0M
Host defense-stimulating macrocyclic peptides for treatment of MDR bacterial infectionsR01AI125141 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI OUELLETTE, ANDRE J., SELSTED, MICHAEL E · 2016 to 2020
$5.3M
MOLECULAR ASPECTS OF LEUKOCYTE ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDESR37AI022931 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI SELSTED, MICHAEL E · 2000 to 2009
$3.7M
Regulation of Mucosal Immunity by Pro- and Anti-inflammatory Salivary DefensinsR01DE021341 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI SELSTED, MICHAEL E · 2010 to 2014
$1.9M
MOLECULAR ASPECTS OF LEUKOCYTE ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDESR01AI022931 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI SELSTED, MICHAEL E · 1986 to 2016
$1.7M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000130NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001855NCI NIH HHS P30 CA014089NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI022931NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI125141NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI022931NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE021341
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Systemic candidiasis is a growing health care concern that is becoming even more challenging due to the growing frequency of infections caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR)

Indexed as

Amphotericin BAnimalsAntifungal AgentsCandidaCandidiasisCaspofunginDefensinsDrug Resistance, Multiple, FungalFluconazoleHistatinsHumansMacaca mulattaMicrobial Sensitivity TestsProtein IsoformsReactive Oxygen SpeciesAmphotericin BAntifungal AgentsCaspofunginDefensinsFluconazoleHistatinsHTN3 protein, humanProtein IsoformsReactive Oxygen Speciestheta-defensinantifungal mechanismsantifungal resistanceantifungalsantifungal therapycandidiasisdefensinsmacrocyclic peptides

Identifiers

PMID29610196
PMCPMC5971616
OpenAlexW2794818343

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