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The gut is the epicentre of antibiotic resistance

Overview of attention for article published in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, January 2012
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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1 blog
policy
1 policy source
twitter
16 tweeters
facebook
1 Facebook page
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1 Google+ user

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Title
The gut is the epicentre of antibiotic resistance
Published in
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, January 2012
DOI 10.1186/2047-2994-1-39
Pubmed ID
23181506
Authors

Jean Carlet

Abstract

The gut contains very large numbers of bacteria. Changes in the composition of the gut flora, due in particular to antibiotics, can happen silently, leading to the selection of highly resistant bacteria and Candida species. These resistant organisms may remain for months in the gut of the carrier without causing any symptoms or translocate through the gut epithelium, induce healthcare-associated infections, undergo cross-transmission to other individuals, and cause limited outbreaks. Techniques are available to prevent, detect, and treat the carriage of resistant organisms in the gut. However, evidence on these techniques is scant, the only exception being selective digestive decontamination (SDD), which has been extensively studied in neutropenic and ICU patients. After the destruction of resistant colonizing bacteria, which has been successfully obtained in several studies, the gut could be re-colonized with normal faecal flora or probiotics. Studies are warranted to evaluate this concept.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 1%
United States 2 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Unknown 270 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 53 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 49 18%
Researcher 35 13%
Student > Bachelor 32 11%
Student > Postgraduate 21 8%
Other 44 16%
Unknown 46 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 62 22%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 48 17%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 32 11%
Immunology and Microbiology 25 9%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 8 3%
Other 43 15%
Unknown 62 22%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 March 2020.
All research outputs
#1,012,663
of 17,356,510 outputs
Outputs from Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
#126
of 1,012 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,819
of 262,898 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
#3
of 18 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 17,356,510 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
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