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ReviewInternational journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases2021

SARS-CoV-2 and immune-microbiome interactions: Lessons from respiratory viral infections.

Farhan Cyprian, Muhammad Umar Sohail, Ibrahim Abdelhafez, Salma Salman, Zakria Attique, Layla Kamareddine, Maha Al-Asmakh

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Review in International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
31citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Dual-function cytokines as modulators of autophagy: reprogramming inflammatory resolution in severe COVID-19.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2026
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  6. Microbiome and Long COVID-19: Current Evidence and Insights.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  13. Microbiota and Immunity during Respiratory Infections: Lung and Gut Affair.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  14. The pediatric gut bacteriome and virome in response to SARS-CoV-2 infection.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2024
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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

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Farhan CyprianCollege of Medicine, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar; Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research Unit, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
Muhammad Umar SohailProteomics Core, Weill Cornell Medicine, Qatar Foundation-Education City, PO Box 24144, Doha, Qatar.
Ibrahim AbdelhafezCollege of Medicine, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
Salma SalmanCollege of Medicine, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
Zakria AttiqueCollege of Medicine, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
Layla KamareddineDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar; Biomedical Research Centre, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
Maha Al-AsmakhBiomedical and Pharmaceutical Research Unit, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar; Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar; Biomedical Research Centre, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. Electronic address: maha.alasmakh@qu.edu.qa.
Qatar University · QAWeill Cornell Medical College in Qatar · QA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

By the beginning of 2020, infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) had rapidly evolved into an emergent worldwide pandemic, an outbreak whose unprecedented consequences highlighted many existing flaws within public healthcare systems across the world. While coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is bestowed with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations, involving the vital organs, the respiratory system transpires as the main route of entry for SARS-CoV-2, with the lungs being its primary target. Of those infected, up to 20% require hospitalization on account of severity, while the majority of patients are either asymptomatic or exhibit mild symptoms. Exacerbation in the disease severity and complications of COVID-19 infection have been associated with multiple comorbidities, including hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disorders, cancer, and chronic lung disease. Interestingly, a recent body of evidence indicated the pulmonary and gut microbiomes as potential modulators for altering the course of COVID-19, potentially via the microbiome-immune system axis. While the relative concordance between microbes and immunity has yet to be fully elucidated with regards to COVID-19, we present an overview of our current understanding of COVID-19-microbiome-immune cross talk and discuss the potential contributions of microbiome-related immunity to SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis and COVID-19 disease progression.

Indexed as

MicrobiotaComorbidityCOVID-19Disease OutbreaksGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHumansRespiratory SystemSARS-CoV-2COVID-19Gut microbiomeImmunityRespiratory tract microbiomeSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID33610778
PMCPMC7891052
OpenAlexW3132563535

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