Evidence map›Paper›PMID 38979800›Full record

ReviewGut microbes

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Diana Meireles, Rita Pombinho, Didier Cabanes

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Review in Gut microbes. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing 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

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

13 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Beyond Bactericidal: Plasma Surface Engineering to Defeat Food Matrix-Conditioning Layers.Comprehensive reviews in food science and food safety · 2026
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  8. Frontiers in microbiology · 2026
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  11. Bioprotective Strategies to ControlInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
    Review
  12. Microorganisms · 2025
    Review
  13. Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024
    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.

Diana MeirelesInstituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Porto, Portugal.
Rita PombinhoInstituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Porto, Portugal.
Didier CabanesInstituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-4001-1332

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The tight and coordinated regulation of virulence gene expression is crucial to ensure the survival and persistence of bacterial pathogens in different contexts within their hosts. Considering this, bacteria do not express virulence factors homogenously in time and space, either due to their associated fitness cost or to their detrimental effect at specific infection stages. To efficiently infect and persist into their hosts, bacteria have thus to monitor environmental cues or chemical cell-to-cell signaling mechanisms that allow their transition from the external environment to the host, and therefore adjust gene expression levels, intrinsic biological activities, and appropriate behaviors.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, BacterialListeria monocytogenesListeriosisVirulence FactorsAnimalsBacterial ProteinsHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansSignal TransductionVirulenceBacterial ProteinsVirulence FactorsListeria monocytogenesVirulence mechanismsVirulence signals

Identifiers

PMID38979800
PMCPMC11236296

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