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ArticlemSystems2020

Identification of Clostridioides difficile-Inhibiting Gut Commensals Using Culturomics, Phenotyping, and Combinatorial Community Assembly.

Sudeep Ghimire, Chayan Roy, Supapit Wongkuna, Linto Antony, Abhijit Maji, Mitchel Chan Keena, Andrew Foley, Joy Scaria

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Article in mSystems, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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49citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

49 citing papers in PubMed, 71 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sudeep GhimireDepartment of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA.
Chayan RoyDepartment of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA.
Supapit WongkunaDepartment of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA.
Linto AntonyDepartment of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA.
Abhijit MajiDepartment of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA.
Mitchel Chan KeenaDepartment of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA.
Andrew FoleyDepartment of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA.
Joy ScariaDepartment of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA joyscaria@gmail.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5299-8074
South Dakota State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A major function of the gut microbiota is to provide colonization resistance, wherein pathogens are inhibited or suppressed below infectious levels. However, the fraction of gut microbiota required for colonization resistance remains unclear. We used culturomics to isolate a gut microbiota culture collection comprising 1,590 isolates belonging to 102 species. This culture collection represents 34.57% of the taxonomic diversity and 70% functional capacity, as estimated by metagenomic sequencing of the fecal samples used for culture. Using whole-genome sequencing, we characterized species representatives from this collection and predicted their phenotypic traits, further characterizing isolates by defining nutrient utilization profiles and short-chain fatty acid production. When screened with a coculture assay, 66 species in our culture collection inhibited

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Clostridium difficilecoculturecolonization resistanceculturomicsfatty acidsmetagenomicsmicrobiomenutrient competitionpathogen inhibitionphenotypic identification

Identifiers

PMID32019832
PMCPMC7002114
OpenAlexW3004666766

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Registered trials

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