User:MNwin/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Tissue tropism

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
In virology, tissue tropism captures the pathogen interaction with the tissue/host. While this is commonly investigated for many pathogens, specifics of tissue tropism for emerging infectious diseases such as SARS-CoV-19 is limited.

Evaluate the article
The introductory sentence provides a simple and succinct overview of a definition of tissue tropism. However, while bacteria is included, the page clearly directs the information in the context of viruses. This page provides bullet information of general, non-specific strategies that pathogens like viruses use to enter cells. While this is a useful summary, the article lacks in sources to investigate the topic further and details for understanding how tissue tropism affects pathogenicity. The article is also limited in examples of tissue tropism and only mentions HIV, despite that the mechanisms cited are true of different viruses. The image for this example shows a non-specific strategy a virus may use to enter the cell and does not capture tissue tropism in its entirety. The page would benefit from the inclusion of specific examples of tissue tropism and may want to consider tissue tropism in the context of a particular virus family (e.g., Filoviruses) or cell-type (e.g., endothelial cells) which have several review articles that can readily found online.