Evidence map›Paper›PMID 37491967›Full record

ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2023

Negative interactions and virulence differences drive the dynamics in multispecies bacterial infections.

Désirée A Schmitz, Richard C Allen, Rolf Kümmerli

Open access · greenAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Pathogen growth and virulence dynamics drive the host evolution against coinfections.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
    Article
  5. Review
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
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 1 institution in 1 country.

Désirée A SchmitzDepartment of Quantitative Biomedicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-1779-9309
Richard C AllenDepartment of Quantitative Biomedicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-6012-7888
Rolf KümmerliDepartment of Quantitative Biomedicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-4084-6679
University of Zurich · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacterial infections are often polymicrobial, leading to intricate pathogen-pathogen and pathogen-host interactions. There is increasing interest in studying the molecular basis of pathogen interactions and how such mechanisms impact host morbidity. However, much less is known about the ecological dynamics between pathogens and how they affect virulence and host survival. Here we address these open issues by co-infecting larvae of the insect model host

Indexed as

Bacterial InfectionsMothsAnimalsHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansLarvaVirulenceGalleria mellonellamicrobe–host interactionsmicrobial interactionsmultispecies bacterial infectionsopportunistic human pathogensvirulence

Identifiers

PMID37491967
PMCPMC10369020
OpenAlexW4385264991

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

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.