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| Title |
Identification and characterisation of vaginal lactobacilli from South African women
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Infectious Diseases, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2334-13-43 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sonal Pendharkar, Tebogo Magopane, Per-Göran Larsson, Guy de Bruyn, Glenda E Gray, Lennart Hammarström, Harold Marcotte |
| Abstract |
Bacterial vaginosis (BV), which is highly prevalent in the African population, is one of the most common vaginal syndromes affecting women in their reproductive age placing them at increased risk for sexually transmitted diseases including infection by human immunodeficiency virus-1. The vaginal microbiota of a healthy woman is often dominated by the species belonging to the genus Lactobacillus namely L. crispatus, L. gasseri, L. jensenii and L. iners, which have been extensively studied in European populations, albeit less so in South African women. In this study, we have therefore identified the vaginal Lactobacillus species in a group of 40 African women from Soweto, a township on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 50% |
| Unknown | 2 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 138 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 136 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 33 | 24% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 23 | 17% |
| Researcher | 13 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 10 | 7% |
| Other | 21 | 15% |
| Unknown | 27 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Immunology and Microbiology | 24 | 17% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 21 | 15% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 20 | 14% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 20 | 14% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 14 | 10% |
| Unknown | 35 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 19 November 2020.
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#7,455,082
of 25,837,817 outputs
Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#2,434
of 8,688 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#72,993
of 292,270 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#36
of 173 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 8,688 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% of its peers.
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