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Clostridium difficile Modulates the Gut Microbiota by Inducing the Production of Indole, an Interkingdom Signaling and Antimicrobial Molecule.

Charles Darkoh, Kimberly Plants-Paris, Dayna Bishoff, Herbert L DuPont

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Article in mSystems. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
48citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
7.2field-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

48 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 78 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Charles DarkohUniversity of Texas Health Science Center, School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, Center For Infectious Diseases, Houston, Texas, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0063-7856
Kimberly Plants-ParisUniversity of Texas Health Science Center, School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, Center For Infectious Diseases, Houston, Texas, USA.
Dayna BishoffUniversity of Texas Health Science Center, School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, Center For Infectious Diseases, Houston, Texas, USA.
Herbert L DuPontUniversity of Texas Health Science Center, School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, Center For Infectious Diseases, Houston, Texas, USA.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · US

Funding

Tissue Analysis & Molecular Imaging CoreP30DK056338 · NIDDK · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI Geoffrey A Preidis · 2001 to 2026
$28.3M
Molecular Basis of Infectious Diseases Training GrantT32AI055449 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI LORENZ, MICHAEL C · 2005 to 2025
$2.6M
Targeting the Toxins: A Novel Non-Antimicrobial Approach to Combat Clostridium difficile infectionsR01AI116914 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI DARKOH, CHARLES · 2015 to 2019
$1.9M
NIAID NIH HHS L30 AI126518NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI116914NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI055449NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK056338
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

C. difficileC. difficile infectiongut microbiotaindoleindole productiontryptophan biosynthesistryptophan metabolism

Identifiers

PMID30944877
PMCPMC6426650
OpenAlexW2921178811

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Registered trials

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