Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31971969›Full record

ArticlePLoS pathogens2020

B vitamin acquisition by gut commensal bacteria.

Emily E Putnam, Andrew L Goodman

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Article in PLoS pathogens, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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46citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

46 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. High dietary BGut microbes · 2026
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  5. Anaerobic riboflavin degradation by human gutJournal of bacteriology · 2026
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  8. Anaerobic riboflavin degradation by human gutbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  19. Skin-associatedmSphere · 2025
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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.

Emily E PutnamDepartment of Microbial Pathogenesis and Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-3428-094X
Andrew L GoodmanDepartment of Microbial Pathogenesis and Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-7599-3471

Funding

Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award (U Component)UL1TR001863 · NCATS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI John H. Krystal, LUCILA OHNO-MACHADO · 2016 to 2026
$102.9M
Causes and consequences of interpersonal microbial variationR35GM118159 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Andrew L Goodman · 2016 to 2026
$5.6M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001863NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118159
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Gastrointestinal MicrobiomeBacteriaCobamidesHumansThiamineVitamin B ComplexVitaminsCobamidesThiamineVitamin B ComplexVitamins

Identifiers

PMID31971969
PMCPMC6977713

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