PLG and infection: The construction of a network of co-occurrence links between terms, carried out with VOSviewer and based on bibliographic data from the Web of Science Core Collection database from 1992 to 2023 with a search query for topics ‘plasminogen’ and ‘infection’ and ‘bacteria’, showed the noticeable presence of relations between these terms in the published scientific literature, referring to the activation of plasminogen to plasmin and regulation of the process of coagulation and fibrinolysis during host–pathogen interactions and manifestation of inflammatory conditions (Figure 1).