Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30012637›Full record

ArticleInfection and immunity2018

Sex Matters: Male Hamsters Are More Susceptible to Lethal Infection with Lower Doses of Pathogenic Leptospira than Female Hamsters.

Charles K Gomes, Mariana Guedes, Hari-Hara Potula, Odir A Dellagostin, Maria Gomes-Solecki

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Infection and immunity, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

15 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. UnveilingFrontiers in public health · 2025
    Article
  4. Facing stress and inflammation: From the cell to the planet.World journal of experimental medicine · 2024
    Review
  5. Article
  6. Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2022
    Article
  7. Article
  8. IL-10 Deficiency Protects Hamsters fromInfection and immunity · 2022
    Article
  9. Host and Species-Specificities of Pattern Recognition Receptors Upon Infection WithFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022
    Review
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. ThreeFrontiers in microbiology · 2019
    Article
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

5 authors.

Charles K Gomes *Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Mariana Guedes *Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Hari-Hara PotulaDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Odir A DellagostinUniversidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, RS, Brazil.
Maria Gomes-SoleckiDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA mgomesso@uthsc.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3715-4543

Funding

Lab on a chip point of care assay for the rapid serodiagnosis of Lyme diseaseR44AI096551 · NIAID · IMMUNO TECHNOLOGIES, INC. · PI GOMES-SOLECKI, MARIA · 2014 to 2016
$3.0M
Point of care assay for serodiagnosis of LeptospirosisR43AI136551 · NIAID · IMMUNO TECHNOLOGIES, INC. · PI GOMES-SOLECKI, MARIA · 2018 to 2019
$600k
NIAID NIH HHS R43 AI136551NIAID NIH HHS R44 AI096551
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A somewhat contradictory published body of evidence suggests that sex impacts severity outcomes of human leptospirosis. In this study, we used an acute animal model of disease to analyze leptospirosis in male and female hamsters infected side by side with low but increasing doses of

Indexed as

AnimalsCricetinaeDisease Models, AnimalDisease SusceptibilityFemaleHumansKidneyLeptospira interrogansLeptospirosisMaleSex Factorsacuteacute leptospirosishamsterLeptospira interroganslethalmalesex

Identifiers

PMID30012637
PMCPMC6204738

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.