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ArticleThe lancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology2020

Probiotics and COVID-19.

Eric Giannoni, David Baud, Varvara Dimopoulou Agri, Glenn R Gibson, Gregor Reid

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Article in The lancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
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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

12 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Human microbiome in post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (PACS).Current research in microbial sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Eric GiannoniClinic of Neonatology, Department Mother-Woman-Child, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1011, Switzerland. Electronic address: eric.giannoni@chuv.ch.
David BaudMaterno-Fetal and Obstetrics Research Unit, Department Mother-Woman-Child, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1011, Switzerland.
Varvara Dimopoulou AgriClinic of Neonatology, Department Mother-Woman-Child, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1011, Switzerland.
Glenn R GibsonFood and Nutritional Sciences, St Joseph's Hospital, University of Reading, UK.
Gregor ReidDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; Canadian R&D Centre for Human Microbiome and Probiotics, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, ON, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralProbioticsCOVID-19HumansSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32673603
PMCPMC7357984

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.