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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2020

Immune Evasion Strategies of Relapsing Fever Spirochetes.

Florian Röttgerding, Peter Kraiczy

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. The ability of relapsing feverCurrent research in parasitology & vector-borne diseases · 2026
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  3. AncientScience (New York, N.Y.) · 2025
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  6. The human factor H protein family - an update.Frontiers in immunology · 2024
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  13. Novel approaches for the serodiagnosis of louse-borne relapsing fever.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Florian RöttgerdingInstitute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of Frankfurt, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
Peter KraiczyInstitute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of Frankfurt, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
Goethe University Frankfurt · DEUniversity Hospital Frankfurt · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Relapsing fever (RF) is claimed a neglected arthropod-borne disease caused by a number of diverse human pathogenic

Indexed as

Adaptive ImmunityAntigenic VariationBacterial ProteinsBorreliaComplement System ProteinsHumansImmune EvasionImmunity, InnateProtein BindingRelapsing FeverBacterial ProteinsComplement System Proteinsadaptive immunityantigenic variationBorreliacomplementimmune evasioninnate immunityrelapsing feverspirochetes

Identifiers

PMID32793216
PMCPMC7390862
OpenAlexW3045011089

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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