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ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2018

A Review: The Fate of Bacteriocins in the Human Gastro-Intestinal Tract: Do They Cross the Gut-Blood Barrier?

Leon M T Dicks, Leané Dreyer, Carine Smith, Anton D van Staden

Erratum issuedOpen access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 99 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
99citing papers in PubMed
7.9field-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

99 citing papers in PubMed, 177 citations in OpenAlex.

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

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Leon M T DicksDepartment of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Leané DreyerDepartment of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Carine SmithDepartment of Physiological Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Anton D van StadenDepartment of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Stellenbosch University · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The intestinal barrier, consisting of the vascular endothelium, epithelial cell lining, and mucus layer, covers a surface of about 400 m

Indexed as

antibioticsbacteriocinsgut–blood barriermicrobiotaprobiotics

Identifiers

PMID30323796
PMCPMC6173059
OpenAlexW2894068917

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