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ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2021

Role of Vaginal Microbiota Dysbiosis in Gynecological Diseases and the Potential Interventions.

Yiwen Han, Zhaoxia Liu, Tingtao Chen

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Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
79citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
9.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

79 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 114 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Awareness of the Vaginal Microbiome and Willingness to Undergo Vaginal Microbiota Transplant.Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNN · 2026
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19 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yiwen HanDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China.
Zhaoxia LiuDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China.
Tingtao ChenDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China.
Nanchang University · CNSecond Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vaginal microbiota dysbiosis, characterized by the loss of

Indexed as

antibioticsbacterial vaginitisgynecological diseasesLactobacillusvaginal microbiota transplantation

Identifiers

PMID34220737
PMCPMC8249587
OpenAlexW3173466859

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