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| Title |
Prospective European-wide multicentre study on a blood based real-time PCR for the diagnosis of acute schistosomiasis
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| Published in |
BMC Infectious Diseases, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2334-13-55 |
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| Authors |
Dominic Wichmann, Sven Poppert, Heidrun Von Thien, Joannes Clerinx, Sebastian Dieckmann, Mogens Jensenius, Philippe Parola, Joachim Richter, Mirjam Schunk, August Stich, Philipp Zanger, Gerd D Burchard, Egbert Tannich |
| Abstract |
Acute schistosomiasis constitutes a rare but serious condition in individuals experiencing their first prepatent Schistosoma infection. To circumvent costly and time-consuming diagnostics, an early and rapid diagnosis is required. So far, classic diagnostic tools such as parasite microscopy or serology lack considerable sensitivity at this early stage of Schistosoma infection. To validate the use of a blood based real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for the detection of Schistosoma DNA in patients with acute schistosomiasis who acquired their infection in various endemic regions we conducted a European-wide prospective study in 11 centres specialized in travel medicine and tropical medicine. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 2 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 1 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 72 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 70 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 11 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 13% |
| Other | 5 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 17 | 24% |
| Unknown | 16 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 23 | 32% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 13% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 9 | 13% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 4 | 6% |
| Environmental Science | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 6 | 8% |
| Unknown | 18 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 27 February 2013.
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#13,144,960
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Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#3,145
of 7,644 outputs
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#155,646
of 282,145 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#60
of 172 outputs
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