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ReviewInfection and immunity2020

Fighting Persistence: How Chronic Infections with Mycobacterium tuberculosis Evade T Cell-Mediated Clearance and New Strategies To Defeat Them.

Laurisa Ankley, Sean Thomas, Andrew J Olive

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In one paragraph

Review in Infection and immunity, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 18% 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

22 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. HowVaccines · 2026
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  3. A CD40-OX40 co-stimulatory circuit orchestrates protective CD4Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2026
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  13. Host-Directed Therapies for Tuberculosis.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Laurisa Ankley *Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
Sean Thomas *Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
Andrew J OliveMichigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA oliveand@msu.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-3441-3113
Michigan State University · US

Funding

Defining resistance and tolerance mechanisms in hyper-susceptible mice during M. tuberculosis infectionR21AI148961 · NIAID · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI OLIVE, ANDREW · 2020 to 2021
$423k
Mechanisms of MHCII expression and CD4+ T cell activation during Chlamydia trachomatis infectionR21AI146504 · NIAID · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI OLIVE, ANDREW · 2020 to 2021
$423k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI146504NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI148961
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic bacterial infections are caused by pathogens that persist within their hosts and avoid clearance by the immune system. Treatment and/or detection of such pathogens is difficult, and the resulting pathologies are often deleterious or fatal. There is an urgent need to develop protective vaccines and host-directed therapies that synergize with antibiotics to prevent pathogen persistence and infection-associated pathologies. However, many persistent pathogens, such as

Indexed as

AnimalsAntigen PresentationAntigen-Presenting CellsHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansImmune EvasionMycobacterium tuberculosisPhagocytosisPhagosomesT-LymphocytesTuberculosisimmune evasionintracellular pathogensMycobacterium tuberculosisT cellvaccine development

Identifiers

PMID32094248
PMCPMC7309621
OpenAlexW3007741980

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Registered trials

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