Evidence map›Paper›PMID 37010691›Full record

ReviewImmunologic research2023

A latent pathogen infection classification system that would significantly increase healthcare safety.

Kevin Roe

Erratum issuedOpen access · bronzeAbstract readReview
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Review in Immunologic research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kevin Roe, San Jose, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4843-9835
San Jose State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most viral, bacterial, fungal, and protozoan pathogens can cause latent infections. Latent pathogens can be reactivated from any intentional medical treatment causing immune system suppression, pathogen infections, malnutrition, stress, or drug side effects. These reactivations of latent pathogen infections can be dangerous and even lethal, especially in immuno-suppressed individuals. The latent pathogen infections in an individual can be classified and updated on a periodic basis in a four category system by whether or not an individual's immune system is damaged and by whether or not these latent infections will assist other active or latent pathogen infections. Such a classification system for latent infections by viral, bacterial, fungal, and protozoan parasite pathogens would be practical and useful and indicate whether certain medical treatments will be dangerous for transmitting or reactivating an individual's latent pathogen infections. This classification system will immediately provide latent pathogen infection status information that is potentially vital for emergency care and essential for quickly and safely selecting tissue or organ transplant donors and recipients, and it will significantly increase the safety of medical care for both patients and medical care providers.

Indexed as

Latent InfectionDelivery of Health CareHumansLatent infectionsMulti-drug resistancePathogen reactivationTransplantationViral infections

Identifiers

PMID37010691
PMCPMC10069357
OpenAlexW4362507299

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Registered trials

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