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ArticleFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology2020

The Vaginal Microbiota Among Adolescent Girls in Tanzania Around the Time of Sexual Debut.

Suzanna Carter Francis, Tania Crucitti, Tom Smekens, Christian Holm Hansen, Aura Andreasen, Vicky Jespers, Liselotte Hardy, Julia Irani, John Changalucha, Kathy Baisley and 3 more

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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 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 24% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Bacterial vaginosis.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2025
    Review
  3. The Vaginal Microbiome and Reproductive Health in Adolescents and Adults.Journal of pediatric and adolescent gynecology · 2025
    Review
  4. Review
  5. Article
  6. Review
  7. Review
  8. Vaginal Aging-What We Know and What We Do Not Know.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
    Review
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

13 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.

Suzanna Carter FrancisMRC Tropical Epidemiology Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
Tania CrucittiDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
Tom SmekensDepartment of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
Christian Holm HansenMRC Tropical Epidemiology Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
Aura AndreasenMwanza Intervention Trials Unit, National Institute for Medical Research, Mwanza, Tanzania.
Vicky JespersBelgian Health Care Knowledge Centre, Brussels, Belgium.
Liselotte HardyDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
Julia IraniMwanza Intervention Trials Unit, National Institute for Medical Research, Mwanza, Tanzania.
John ChangaluchaNational Institute for Medical Research, Mwanza, Tanzania.
Kathy BaisleyMRC Tropical Epidemiology Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
Richard HayesMRC Tropical Epidemiology Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
Deborah Watson-JonesMwanza Intervention Trials Unit, National Institute for Medical Research, Mwanza, Tanzania.
Anne BuvéDepartment of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde · BELondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine · GBNational Institute for Medical Research · TZBelgian Health Care Knowledge Centre · BEMwanza Intervention Trials Unit · TZUganda Virus Research Institute · UG

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/K012126/1Medical Research Council MR/R010161/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aetiology of bacterial vaginosis (BV) is not well-understood, and prevalence appears to be higher among women living in sub-Saharan Africa. A recent conceptual model implicates three main bacteria (

Indexed as

MicrobiotaVaginaActinobacteriaAdolescentCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansPrevotellaSexual BehaviorTanzaniaadolescenceAfricabacterial vaginosisbiofilmGardnerella vaginalisLactobacillus crispatussialidasevagina microbiota

Identifiers

PMID32670894
PMCPMC7330010
OpenAlexW3038056878

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