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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2018

Immunological Tolerance and Function: Associations Between Intestinal Bacteria, Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Phages.

Luis Vitetta, Gemma Vitetta, Sean Hall

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
69citing papers in PubMed
5.0field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

69 citing papers in PubMed, 131 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Immune Responses to Phage Therapy in Humans: A Review.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2026
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  5. Antibiotic-perturbed microbiota and the role of probiotics.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2025
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  9. Potential of Synbiotics and Probiotics as Chemopreventive Agent.Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins · 2024
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  17. Aerobic and facultative anaerobicFrontiers in immunology · 2023
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  20. Animal Models of Cognitive Deficits for Probiotic Treatment.Food science of animal resources · 2022
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9 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.

Luis VitettaDiscipline of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Medicine, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.
Gemma VitettaMedlab Clinical Ltd., Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Sean HallMedlab Clinical Ltd., Sydney, NSW, Australia.
New South Wales Department of Health · AUUniversity of Sydney · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Post-birth there is a bacterial assault on all mucosal surfaces. The intestinal microbiome is an important participant in health and disease. The pattern of composition and concentration of the intestinal microbiome varies greatly. Therefore, achieving immunological tolerance in the first 3-4 years of life is critical for maintaining health throughout a lifetime. Probiotic bacteria are organisms that afford beneficial health effects to the host and in certain instances may protect against the development of disease. The potential benefits of modifying the composition of the intestinal microbial cohort for therapeutic benefit is evident in the use in high risks groups such as premature infants, children receiving antibiotics, rotavirus infections in non-vaccinated children and traveler's diarrhea in adults. Probiotics and prebiotics are postulated to have immunomodulating capabilities by influencing the intestinal microbial cohort and dampening the activity of pathobiont intestinal microbes, such as

Indexed as

BacteriaBacteriophagesGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHumansImmune ToleranceIntestinesPrebioticsProbioticsSymbiosisPrebioticsbacteriophagesBifidobacteriaimmunological toleranceinflammationLactobacilliprebioticsprobiotics

Identifiers

PMID30356736
PMCPMC6189397
OpenAlexW2897732745

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