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ReviewVirus research2019

Strength in numbers: Mechanisms of viral co-infection.

Elizabeth R Aguilera, Julie K Pfeiffer

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Review in Virus research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
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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

20 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
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  3. Virion aggregation shapes infection dynamics and evolutionary potential.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  7. Impact of the Microbiota on Viral Infections.Annual review of virology · 2023
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  11. AViruses · 2022
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  17. Quantifying relative virulence: whenThe Journal of general virology · 2021
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  20. Welcome to the virus social.Nature microbiology · 2019
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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

2 authors.

Elizabeth R AguileraDepartment of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
Julie K PfeifferDepartment of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA. Electronic address: Julie.Pfeiffer@UTSouthwestern.edu.

Funding

The influence of host barriers on viral quasispecies diversity and pathogenesisR01AI074668 · NIAID · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI PFEIFFER, JULIE K · 2008 to 2022
$6.0M
Enteric virus-microbiota interactionsR37AI074668 · NIAID · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI Julie K Pfeiffer · 2023 to 2026
$2.5M
Genetics of bacteria-mediated viral co-infectionR21AI114927 · NIAID · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI PFEIFFER, JULIE K · 2015 to 2016
$444k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI074668NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI114927NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI074668
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA virus populations are diverse due to a variety of factors, including lack of proofreading of the viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. These diverse viral populations include defective viruses incapable of productive infection. Recent studies have determined the existence of several modes of viral transmission outside of canonical pathways, including en bloc transmission of multiple viruses into a single host cell via membrane vesicles. Additionally, it has recently been determined that viral aggregation and bacteria can facilitate the delivery of multiple viruses to a single cell. Co-infection of RNA viruses is important since it has the potential to enhance viral fitness. Furthermore, through complementation and recombination, co-infection could potentially promote "resurrection" of otherwise defective viral genomes and has the potential to expand viral diversity.

Indexed as

Evolution, MolecularRecombination, GeneticAnimalsCoinfectionDefective VirusesGenome, ViralHumansMiceRNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseRNA, ViralRNA VirusesVirus DiseasesVirus ReplicationRNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseRNA, ViralRNA virusesViral co-infectionViral evolution

Identifiers

PMID30836113
PMCPMC6461475

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