Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31701033›Full record

ArticleCommunications biology2019

Spatial structure affects phage efficacy in infecting dual-strain biofilms of

Samuele Testa, Sarah Berger, Philippe Piccardi, Frank Oechslin, Grégory Resch, Sara Mitri

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Communications biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
44citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

44 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Modeling the phage properties best for therapy.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
    Article
  8. Mucofilm: a nexus for phage-microbiome interactions in gut ecology.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2025
    Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Review
  12. Bacterial defense and phage counterdefense lead to coexistence in a modeled ecosystem.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
    Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Metapopulation model of phage therapy of an acutebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
    Article
  18. Article
  19. Article
  20. Decolonizing drug-resistantMicrobiology (Reading, England) · 2023
    Article
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

6 authors.

Samuele Testa *1Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Sarah Berger *1Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Philippe Piccardi1Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Frank Oechslin1Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Grégory Resch1Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Sara Mitri1Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-3930-5357

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacterial viruses, or phage, are key members of natural microbial communities. Yet much research on bacterial-phage interactions has been conducted in liquid cultures involving single bacterial strains. Here we explored how bacterial diversity affects the success of lytic phage in structured communities. We infected a sensitive

Indexed as

BiofilmsHost Microbial InteractionsMicroscopy, Electron, TransmissionModels, BiologicalPseudomonas aeruginosaPseudomonas PhagesSpecies SpecificityBacteriophagesBiofilmsMicrobial ecology

Identifiers

PMID31701033
PMCPMC6828766

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.