No bacteria found in healthy placentas.

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.

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.

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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3. Next-Generation Sequencing of the Human Aqueous Humour Microbiome.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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4. Is there a placental microbiota? A critical review and re-analysis of published placental microbiota datasets.BMC microbiology · 2023
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5. Questioning the fetal microbiome illustrates pitfalls of low-biomass microbial studies.Nature · 2023
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6. Diversity and characteristics of culturable endophytic bacteria from Passiflora edulis seeds.MicrobiologyOpen · 2021
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7. Identifying biases and their potential solutions in human microbiome studies.Microbiome · 2021
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8. A philosophical perspective on the prenatal in utero microbiome debate.Microbiome · 2021
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9. Aerobic Vaginitis Induced byFrontiers in microbiology · 2021
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10. Multicenter assessment of microbial community profiling using 16S rRNA gene sequencing and shotgun metagenomic sequencing.Journal of advanced research · 2020
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11. The Association Between Gestational Diabetes and Microbiota in Placenta and Cord Blood.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2020
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Human placenta has no microbiome but can contain potential pathogens.2019

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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