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ArticleBiofilm2025

Key bacterial vaginosis-associated bacteria influence each other's growth in biofilms in rich media and media simulating vaginal tract secretions.

Lúcia G V Sousa, Christina A Muzny, Nuno Cerca

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Article in Biofilm, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Lúcia G V SousaCentre of Biological Engineering (CEB), Laboratory of Research in Biofilms Rosário Oliveira (LIBRO), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
Christina A MuznyDivision of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States.
Nuno CercaCentre of Biological Engineering (CEB), Laboratory of Research in Biofilms Rosário Oliveira (LIBRO), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.

Funding

Microbial Interactions between Gardnerella, Prevotella, and Atopobium Prior to Incident Bacterial VaginosisR01AI146065 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI MUZNY, CHRISTINA A · 2020 to 2024
$3.2M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI146065
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a very common gynaecologic condition affecting women of reproductive age worldwide. BV is characterized by a depletion of lactic acid-producing

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Bacterial interactionsBacterial vaginosisGrowth media conditionsPolymicrobial biofilms

Identifiers

PMID39877232
PMCPMC11773214

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