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ReviewCureus2025

Microbiome of the Ocular Surface: Resident or Transient Ecosystem?

Fiorella Apuy Rodríguez, Melissa Chacón Quirós, María Laura Alvarado Fernández, María Luisa Alvarado Mora, Paula Vanegas Navarro

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Review in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited 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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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

5 authors.

Fiorella Apuy RodríguezFaculty of Medicine, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, CRI.
Melissa Chacón QuirósFaculty of Medicine, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, CRI.
María Laura Alvarado FernándezFaculty of Medicine, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, CRI.
María Luisa Alvarado MoraFaculty of Medicine, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, CRI.
Paula Vanegas NavarroFaculty of Medicine, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, CRI.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ocular surface microbiome (OSM) is a low-density, low-diversity microbial ecosystem influenced by host and environmental factors, including age, hygiene, contact lens use, and systemic disease. Unlike other mucosal sites, the eye lacks a well-defined core microbiome, and its microbial composition varies significantly between individuals. Advances in metagenomics have revealed that commensals such as

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allergic conjunctivitiscontact lens usedry eye diseaseinflammationocular surface microbiome

Identifiers

PMID40918894
PMCPMC12412772

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