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Levamisole tainted cocaine causing severe neutropenia in Alberta and British Columbia

Overview of attention for article published in Harm Reduction Journal, November 2009
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Title
Levamisole tainted cocaine causing severe neutropenia in Alberta and British Columbia
Published in
Harm Reduction Journal, November 2009
DOI 10.1186/1477-7517-6-30
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Authors

Lewinda Knowles, Jane A Buxton, Nataliya Skuridina, Ifeoma Achebe, Donald LeGatt, Shihe Fan, Nancy Yan Zhu, James Talbot

Abstract

Five cases of severe neutropenia (neutrophil counts < 0.5 per 109 cells/L) associated with exposure to cocaine and levamisole, an antihelimithic agent no longer available in Canada, were identified in Alberta in 2008. Alberta and British Columbia (BC) public health officials issued an advisory and urged health care professionals to report cases to public health. This paper presents the findings of the public health investigations.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 4%
Canada 2 4%
France 1 2%
Brazil 1 2%
Unknown 44 88%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 10 20%
Professor > Associate Professor 8 16%
Student > Postgraduate 6 12%
Other 5 10%
Student > Master 5 10%
Other 13 26%
Unknown 3 6%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 21 42%
Chemistry 6 12%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 4%
Psychology 2 4%
Other 8 16%
Unknown 6 12%
Attention Score in Context

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 31 August 2021.
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#7,029,372
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Harm Reduction Journal
#721
of 1,119 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#42,693
of 178,601 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Harm Reduction Journal
#4
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,373,627 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,119 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 28.7. This one is in the 35th percentile – i.e., 35% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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