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ArticleFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology2020

Joana Castro, Aliona S Rosca, Piet Cools, Mario Vaneechoutte, Nuno Cerca

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Article in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
42citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
6.2field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

42 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Vaginal Sheets withGels (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Joana CastroLaboratory of Research in Biofilms Rosário Oliveira (LIBRO), Centre of Biological Engineering (CEB), Braga, Portugal.
Aliona S RoscaLaboratory of Research in Biofilms Rosário Oliveira (LIBRO), Centre of Biological Engineering (CEB), Braga, Portugal.
Piet CoolsLaboratory Bacteriology Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Mario VaneechoutteLaboratory Bacteriology Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Nuno CercaLaboratory of Research in Biofilms Rosário Oliveira (LIBRO), Centre of Biological Engineering (CEB), Braga, Portugal.
Ghent University · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the most common vaginal infection among women of reproductive age. A hallmark of BV is the presence of a highly structured polymicrobial biofilm on the vaginal epithelium, presumably initiated by facultative anaerobes of the genus

Indexed as

Microbial InteractionsActinobacteriaBacteriological TechniquesBiofilmsGardnerella vaginalisIn Situ Hybridization, FluorescenceMicrobial ViabilitySpecies SpecificityAtopobium vaginaebacterial vaginosisGardnerellaPNA-FISHpolymicrobial biofilms

Identifiers

PMID32195197
PMCPMC7064616
OpenAlexW3010285300

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Registered trials

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