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ArticleJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Do Pentraxins Bind to Fungi in Invasive Human Gastrointestinal Candidiasis?

Umamaheshwari Golconda, Richard E Sobonya, Stephen A Klotz

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Article in Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 54% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Umamaheshwari GolcondaDepartment of Pathology, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA. umagolgonda@email.arizona.edu.
Richard E SobonyaDepartment of Pathology, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA. rsobonya@email.arizona.edu.
Stephen A KlotzDivision of Infections Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA. sklotz@u.arizona.edu.
University of Arizona · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tissue from 13 autopsy cases with invasive gastrointestinal candidiasis was studied for the binding of the pentraxins, C-reactive protein (CRP), pentraxin 3 (PTX3), and serum amyloid P component (SAP) to fungal surfaces. Invasive candidal infection was demonstrated using a hematoxylin and eosin stain and a Gomori methenamine silver stain (GMS). Immunohistochemistry was performed with CRP and PTX3 monoclonal antibodies and did not demonstrate CRP or PTX3 bound to fungi (0 of 13 cases), although CRP was extensively deposited on human tissue. A polyclonal antibody to SAP showed that SAP was bound to fungi in 12 of 13 cases. Although all three pentraxins have been reported to bind to fungi or bacteria, only SAP was bound to filamentous and yeast forms of

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amyloidCandidaC-reactive proteinfungiimmunohistochemistrypentraxin 3pentraxinsserum amyloid P component

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PMID30227609
PMCPMC6162546
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