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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2021

Legionella pneumophila CRISPR-Cas Suggests Recurrent Encounters with One or More Phages in the Family

Shayna R Deecker, Malene L Urbanus, Beth Nicholson, Alexander W Ensminger

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The discovery of aScience advances · 2025
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  2. Isolation of phages infecting the zoonotic pathogenbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shayna R DeeckerDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Torontogrid.17063.33, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Malene L UrbanusDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Torontogrid.17063.33, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Beth NicholsonDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Torontogrid.17063.33, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Alexander W EnsmingerDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Torontogrid.17063.33, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
University of Toronto · CA

Funding

Gouvernement du Canada | Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) PHT-148819
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Legionella pneumophila is a ubiquitous freshwater pathogen and the causative agent of Legionnaires' disease. L. pneumophila growth within protists provides a refuge from desiccation, disinfection, and other remediation strategies. One outstanding question has been whether this protection extends to phages. L. pneumophila isolates are remarkably devoid of prophages and to date no

Indexed as

BacteriophagesCRISPR-Cas SystemsDNA Transposable ElementsHumansLegionella pneumophilaLegionnaires' DiseaseMicroviridaePhylogenyDNA Transposable ElementsbacteriophagesCRISPR-CasgokushovirusLegionella pneumophilaLME-1microvirusphagespacer target

Identifiers

PMID34132590
PMCPMC8357283
OpenAlexW3168734789

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.