Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33865675›Full record

ReviewTrends in microbiology2021

Chlamydia overcomes multiple gastrointestinal barriers to achieve long-lasting colonization.

Guangming Zhong

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Review in Trends in microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
30citing papers in PubMed
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

30 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Quantifying Chlamydia in the Mouse Gastrointestinal Tract.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2027
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  2. Review
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  5. Impact of oralmSystems · 2025
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  7. Insights into intestinal barrier disruption during long-term gutFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025
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  11. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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  14. Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024
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  15. Diverse animal models forFrontiers in microbiology · 2024
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  16. Veterinary pathology · 2024
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  17. Insights into innate immune cell evasion byFrontiers in immunology · 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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Guangming ZhongDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA. Electronic address: Zhongg@UTHSCSA.edu.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · US

Funding

MECHANISMS OF CHLAMYDIAL EVASION OF IMMUNE RECOGNATIONR01AI047997 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI ZHONG, GUANGMING · 2000 to 2021
$6.9M
Chlamydial plasmid-dependent pathogenesisR01AI121989 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI ZHONG, GUANGMING · 2016 to 2019
$1.9M
Genital Chlamydia spreading to the gastrointestinal tract promotes chlamydial pathogenicity in the upper genital tractR21AI151724 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI ZHONG, GUANGMING · 2020 to 2021
$416k
Gut Microbiome and Chlamydia pathogenicity in the upper genital tractR21AI133386 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI ZHONG, GUANGMING · 2019 to 2020
$412k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI047997NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI121989NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI133386NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI151724
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) is frequently detected in the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract despite its leading role in sexually transmitted bacterial infections in the genital tract. Chlamydia muridarum (CM), a model pathogen for investigating CT pathogenesis in the genital tract, can also colonize the mouse GI tract for long periods. Genital-tract mutants of CM no longer colonize the GI tract. The mutants lacking plasmid functions are more defective in colonizing the upper GI tract while certain chromosomal gene-deficient mutants are more defective in the lower GI tract, suggesting that Chlamydia may use the plasmid for promoting its spread to the large intestine while using the chromosome-encoded factors for maintaining its colonization in the large intestine. The plasmid-encoded Pgp3 is critical for Chlamydia to resist the acid barrier in the stomach and to overcome a CD4

Indexed as

Chlamydia InfectionsChlamydia muridarumAnimalsGastrointestinal TractImmunity, InnateLymphocytesMiceChlamydiacolonization factorsgastrointestinal tractPgp3TC0668

Identifiers

PMID33865675
PMCPMC8510992
OpenAlexW3155022218

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