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ReviewFrontiers in medicine2023

The long and sinuous road to phage-based therapy of

Andrew A Umansky, Louis Charles Fortier

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Review in Frontiers in medicine, 2023. 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
3.5field-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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Phage Therapy in Gastrointestinal Diseases: Current Status and Challenges.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
    Review
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  7. The evolving landscape of live biotherapeutics in the treatment of Clostridioides difficile infection.Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology · 2025
    Review
  8. Phage therapy against methicillin-resistantFrontiers in microbiology · 2025
    Article
  9. Dietary Effects on the Gut Phageome.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
    Review
  10. Prophage Carriage and Genetic Diversity within Environmental Isolates ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023
    Article
  11. Therapies from Thiopeptides.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
    Review
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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrew A UmanskyDepartment of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.
Louis Charles FortierDepartment of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.
Université de Sherbrooke · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the antibiotic crisis and the rise in antimicrobial resistance worldwide, new therapeutic alternatives are urgently needed. Phage therapy represents one of the most promising alternatives but for some pathogens, such as

Indexed as

avidocinbacteriophage (phage)Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile infectiondiffocinendolysinphage engineeringphage therapy

Identifiers

PMID37680620
PMCPMC10481535
OpenAlexW4386099458

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Registered trials

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