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ReviewTrends in microbiology2021

The phages of staphylococci: critical catalysts in health and disease.

Asma Hatoum-Aslan

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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 17 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Characteristics of a novel temperate bacteriophage against Staphylococcus arlettae (vB_SarS_BM31).International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2023
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  16. Structure and host specificity ofScience advances · 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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Asma Hatoum-AslanUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Microbiology, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA. Electronic address: ahatoum@illinois.edu.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · US

Funding

Engineering picoviruses with defined host range to combat drug-resistant staphylococciR21AI156636 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI DOKLAND, TERJE, HATOUM, ASMA · 2021 to 2022
$434k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI156636
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The phages that infect Staphylococcus species are dominant residents of the skin microbiome that play critical roles in health and disease. While temperate phages, which can integrate into the host genome, have the potential to promote staphylococcal pathogenesis, the strictly lytic variety are powerful antimicrobials that are being exploited for therapeutic applications. This article reviews recent insights into the diversity of staphylococcal phages and newly described mechanisms by which they influence host pathogenicity. The latest efforts to harness these viruses to eradicate staphylococcal infections are also highlighted. Decades of research has focused on the temperate phages of Staphylococcus aureus as model systems, thus underscoring the need to broaden basic research efforts to include diverse phages that infect other clinically relevant Staphylococcus species.

Indexed as

Staphylococcal InfectionsStaphylococcusHumansStaphylococcus aureusStaphylococcus PhagesVirulencepathogenesisphagephage therapySaPIStaphylococcustransduction

Identifiers

PMID34030968
PMCPMC8578144
OpenAlexW3165341699

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