Germ factories or immune boot camps? Infection and immunity in childcare settings

Sarah L. Caddy, Lucy van Dorp, Leo Swadling, Yuan Wis Wang-Koh, Charlotte J. Houldcroft

Open source

DOI: 10.1128/cmr.00253-25
Published: 2026-06-11
Container: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
Open access: unknown

Credibility signals

uncertain Score 64/100 under policy 1.0.0. This is a metadata assessment, not a judgment of the paper's conclusions.

Show all credibility signals

supportingDOI registered: A matching record was returned by Crossref. Source: Crossref; license: CC0 metadata
supportingDOI resolves: A matching record was returned by Crossref. Source: Crossref; license: CC0 metadata
not scoredDirectory of Open Access Journals: No matching DOAJ record was present in this response. No allow-list match; this is not evidence of low credibility. Source: DOAJ; license: CC0
not scoredMEDLINE indexed: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredOpenAlex core source: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredKnown publisher allow-list: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredROR affiliation: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredRetraction Watch retraction: No retraction notice matched this DOI in the deployed snapshot. No matching event found; coverage may be incomplete. Source: Retraction Watch; license: CC BY 4.0
not scoredRetraction Watch expression of concern: No expression of concern notice matched this DOI in the deployed snapshot. No matching event found; coverage may be incomplete. Source: Retraction Watch; license: CC BY 4.0
not scoredRetraction Watch correction: No correction notice matched this DOI in the deployed snapshot. No matching event found; coverage may be incomplete. Source: Retraction Watch; license: CC BY 4.0
not scoredRetraction Watch reinstatement: No reinstatement notice matched this DOI in the deployed snapshot. No matching event found; coverage may be incomplete. Source: Retraction Watch; license: CC BY 4.0
not scoredOpen access status: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredPublication license: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredPublication version: A publication version was supplied but is not scored. Source: Normalized work metadata; license: Caller-provided; provenance license not supplied to scorer
supportingMetadata completeness: All 6 scored descriptive metadata groups are present. Source: Normalized work metadata; license: Caller-provided; provenance license not supplied to scorer

Cite this work

BibTeX

@article{allodium:10.1128/cmr.00253-25,
  title = {Germ factories or immune boot camps? Infection and immunity in childcare settings},
  author = {Sarah L. Caddy and Lucy van Dorp and Leo Swadling and Yuan Wis Wang-Koh and Charlotte J. Houldcroft},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {Clinical Microbiology Reviews},
  doi = {10.1128/cmr.00253-25},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1128/cmr.00253-25}
}

RIS

TY  - JOUR
TI  - Germ factories or immune boot camps? Infection and immunity in childcare settings
AU  - Sarah L. Caddy
AU  - Lucy van Dorp
AU  - Leo Swadling
AU  - Yuan Wis Wang-Koh
AU  - Charlotte J. Houldcroft
PY  - 2026
JO  - Clinical Microbiology Reviews
DO  - 10.1128/cmr.00253-25
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1128/cmr.00253-25
ER  -

APA

Caddy, S. L., Dorp, L. V., Swadling, L., Wang-Koh, Y. W., & Houldcroft, C. J. (2026). Germ factories or immune boot camps? Infection and immunity in childcare settings. Clinical Microbiology Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1128/cmr.00253-25

Source records

crossref · retrieved 2026-11-04T17:00:16.398Z