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| Title |
Failure to detect Plasmodium vivax in West and Central Africa by PCR species typing
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Malaria Journal, September 2008
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| DOI | 10.1186/1475-2875-7-174 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Richard L Culleton, Toshihiro Mita, Mathieu Ndounga, Holger Unger, Pedro VL Cravo, Giacomo M Paganotti, Nobuyuki Takahashi, Akira Kaneko, Hideaki Eto, Halidou Tinto, Corine Karema, Umberto D'Alessandro, Virgilio do Rosário, Takatoshi Kobayakawa, Francine Ntoumi, Richard Carter, Kazuyuki Tanabe |
| Abstract |
Plasmodium vivax is estimated to affect 75 million people annually. It is reportedly absent, however, from west and central Africa due to the high prevalence of the Duffy negative phenotype in the indigenous populations. Despite this, non-African travellers consistently return to their own countries with P. vivax malaria after visiting this region. An attempt was made, therefore, to detect the presence of P. vivax parasites in blood samples collected from the indigenous populations of west and central Africa. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 123 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 2 | 2% |
| Rwanda | 2 | 2% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Peru | 1 | <1% |
| Kenya | 1 | <1% |
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| Thailand | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Philippines | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 112 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 22 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 15 | 12% |
| Researcher | 14 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 12 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 7% |
| Other | 26 | 21% |
| Unknown | 25 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 34 | 28% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 28 | 23% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 11 | 9% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 6 | 5% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 14 | 11% |
| Unknown | 27 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 October 2016.
All research outputs
#3,257,973
of 22,707,247 outputs
Outputs from Malaria Journal
#805
of 5,545 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,268
of 87,572 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Malaria Journal
#2
of 27 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 5,545 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% of its peers.
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