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ReviewMicroorganisms2024

How Does Airway Surface Liquid Composition Vary in Different Pulmonary Diseases, and How Can We Use This Knowledge to Model Microbial Infections?

Dean Walsh, Jennifer Bevan, Freya Harrison

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Review in Microorganisms, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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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

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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.

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  4. The importance of mechanical forces in chronic respiratory diseases.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Dean WalshSchool of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.ORCID 0009-0009-9840-1673
Jennifer BevanSchool of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.
Freya HarrisonSchool of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.

Funding

Monash-Warwick Alliance Monash-Warwick Alliance in AMR
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Growth environment greatly alters many facets of pathogen physiology, including pathogenesis and antimicrobial tolerance. The importance of host-mimicking environments for attaining an accurate picture of pathogen behaviour is widely recognised. Whilst this recognition has translated into the extensive development of artificial cystic fibrosis (CF) sputum medium, attempts to mimic the growth environment in other respiratory disease states have been completely neglected. The composition of the airway surface liquid (ASL) in different pulmonary diseases is far less well characterised than CF sputum, making it very difficult for researchers to model these infection environments. In this review, we discuss the components of human ASL, how different lung pathologies affect ASL composition, and how different pathogens interact with these components. This will provide researchers interested in mimicking different respiratory environments with the information necessary to design a host-mimicking medium, allowing for better understanding of how to treat pathogens causing infection in these environments.

Indexed as

airway surface liquidasthmabiofilm cystic fibrosishost-mimicking mediarespiratory infectionsputumventilator-associated pneumonia

Identifiers

PMID38674677
PMCPMC11052052

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