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ArticleThe Journal of infectious diseases2021

Emerging Themes in the Molecular Pathogenesis of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.

James M Fleckenstein, Alaullah Sheikh

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Article in The Journal of infectious diseases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Intestinal and Extraintestinal Pathotypes ofAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  7. Host-derived CEACAM-laden vesicles engage enterotoxigenicProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  9. Host-derived CEACAM-laden vesicles engage enterotoxigenicbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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  13. Interactions of pathogenicFrontiers in immunology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

James M FleckensteinDepartment of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University in St Louis, School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA.
Alaullah SheikhDepartment of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University in St Louis, School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA.
Washington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

Washington University DDRCC Supplemental Equipment RequestP30DK052574 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Nicholas O. Davidson · 2000 to 2026
$30.8M
Novel Antigen Identification for an Enterotoxigenic E. coli VaccineR01AI089894 · NIAID · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Zachary T. Berndsen, James Michael Fleckenstein · 2010 to 2026
$7.4M
Molecular Microbiology of Enterotoxigenic E. coli Pathogen-Host InteractionsR01AI126887 · NIAID · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI FLECKENSTEIN, JAMES MICHAEL · 2016 to 2020
$1.6M
Molecular Pathogenesis of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli InfectionsI01BX004825 · VA · ST. LOUIS VA MEDICAL CENTER · PI FLECKENSTEIN, JAMES MICHAEL · 2020 to 2024
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BLRD VA I01 BX001469BLRD VA I01 BX004825NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI089894NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI126887NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK052574
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) are ubiquitous diarrheal pathogens that thrive in areas lacking basic human needs of clean water and sanitation. These genetically plastic organisms cause tremendous morbidity among disadvantaged young children, in the form of both acute diarrheal illness and sequelae of malnutrition and growth impairment. The recent discovery of additional plasmid-encoded virulence factors and elucidation of their critical role in the molecular pathogenesis of ETEC may inform new approaches to the development of broadly protective vaccines. Although the pathogens have been closely linked epidemiologically with nondiarrheal sequelae, these conditions remain very poorly understood. Similarly, while canonical effects of ETEC toxins on cellular signaling promoting diarrhea are clear, emerging data suggest that these toxins may also drive changes in intestinal architecture and associated sequelae. Elucidation of molecular events underlying these changes could inform optimal approaches to vaccines that prevent acute diarrhea and ETEC-associated sequelae.

Indexed as

Escherichia coli ProteinsEscherichia coli VaccinesBacterial ToxinsChildChild, PreschoolDiarrheaEnterotoxigenic Escherichia coliEnterotoxinsEscherichia coli InfectionsHumansMalnutritionPlasmidsBacterial ToxinsEnterotoxinsEscherichia coli ProteinsEscherichia coli Vaccinesbacterial vaccinesbrush borderCEACAM6childcyclic AMPenterotoxigenicenterotoxinsEscherichia colimalnutritionmicrovilliMucin 2

Identifiers

PMID34273153
PMCPMC8687053
OpenAlexW3184693289

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