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| Title |
The development and validation of dried blood spots for external quality assurance of syphilis serology
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Infectious Diseases, February 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2334-13-102 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Pieter W Smit, Thomas van der Vlis, David Mabey, John Changalucha, Julius Mngara, Benjamin D Clark, Aura Andreasen, Jim Todd, Mark Urassa, Basia Zaba, Rosanna W Peeling |
| Abstract |
Syphilis causes up to 1,500,000 congenital syphilis cases annually. These could be prevented if all pregnant women were screened, and those with syphilis treated with a single dose of penicillin before 28 weeks gestation. In recent years, rapid point-of-care tests have allowed greater access to syphilis screening, especially in rural or remote areas, but the lack of quality assurance of rapid testing has been a concern. We determined the feasibility of using dried blood spots (DBS) as specimens for quality assurance of syphilis serological assays. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 57 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 54 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 16 | 28% |
| Other | 5 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 11 | 19% |
| Unknown | 11 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 18 | 32% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 16% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 3 | 5% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 5% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 6 | 11% |
| Unknown | 15 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. 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 21 March 2013.
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#17,681,263
of 22,699,621 outputs
Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#5,068
of 7,644 outputs
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#140,500
of 192,953 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#109
of 163 outputs
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