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ReviewJournal of pharmaceutical analysis2025

Virulence arresting drug discovery by strategies targeting bacterial virulence: Mainly focusing on quorum-sensing interference and biofilm inhibition.

Lan Lu, Tianyang Yu, Hongping Wang, Xingtong Zhu, Li Liao, Jie Zhu, Xiaobo Wang, Andi Yang, Chen Yang, Yuping Zhang and 4 more

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Review in Journal of pharmaceutical analysis, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 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

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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Frontiers in microbiology · 2026
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  5. YtnP lactonase fromFrontiers in microbiology · 2026
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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

14 authors.

Lan LuAnti-Infective Agent Creation Engineering Research Centre of Sichuan Province, School of Pharmacy, Chengdu University, Chengdu, 610000, China.
Tianyang YuAnti-Infective Agent Creation Engineering Research Centre of Sichuan Province, School of Pharmacy, Chengdu University, Chengdu, 610000, China.
Hongping WangSafety Evaluation Center, Sichuan Institute for Drug Control (Sichuan Testing Center of Medical Devices), Chengdu, 610000, China.
Xingtong ZhuSchool of Food Science and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, 310018, Zhejiang, China.
Li LiaoAnti-Infective Agent Creation Engineering Research Centre of Sichuan Province, School of Pharmacy, Chengdu University, Chengdu, 610000, China.
Jie ZhuAnti-Infective Agent Creation Engineering Research Centre of Sichuan Province, School of Pharmacy, Chengdu University, Chengdu, 610000, China.
Xiaobo WangHepatobiliary Surgery, Langzhong People's Hospital, Langzhong, Sichuan, 637400, China.
Andi YangAnti-Infective Agent Creation Engineering Research Centre of Sichuan Province, School of Pharmacy, Chengdu University, Chengdu, 610000, China.
Chen YangAnti-Infective Agent Creation Engineering Research Centre of Sichuan Province, School of Pharmacy, Chengdu University, Chengdu, 610000, China.
Yuping ZhangAnti-Infective Agent Creation Engineering Research Centre of Sichuan Province, School of Pharmacy, Chengdu University, Chengdu, 610000, China.
Yulin ZhangAnti-Infective Agent Creation Engineering Research Centre of Sichuan Province, School of Pharmacy, Chengdu University, Chengdu, 610000, China.
Kun ZouAnti-Infective Agent Creation Engineering Research Centre of Sichuan Province, School of Pharmacy, Chengdu University, Chengdu, 610000, China.
Xiaorong YangSichuan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, 610041, China.
Mingxing LiLaboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, 646000, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rising prevalence of multidrug-resistant pathogens poses a substantial threat to global healthcare systems, demanding urgent therapeutic interventions. Microorganisms exhibit diverse resistance mechanisms against various classes of antibiotics, highlighting the urgent need to discover novel antimicrobial agents for combating bacterial infections. Anti-virulence therapy has emerged as a promising therapeutic strategy that neutralizes pathogens by targeting their virulence determinants. The strategies for screening virulence arresting drugs (VADs) in bacteria represent a multifaceted approach that involves elucidating molecular pathogenesis mechanisms of bacterial pathogenicity, identifying evolutionarily conserved virulence factors across different pathogens, and employing integrated approaches combining

Indexed as

Anti-virulence therapyBacterial virulence factorsBiofilm inhibitionQuorum-sensing interferenceVirulence arresting drugs

Identifiers

PMID41476722
PMCPMC12750765

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