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Accurate identification of the six human Plasmodium spp. causing imported malaria, including Plasmodium ovale wallikeri and Plasmodium knowlesi

Overview of attention for article published in Malaria Journal, September 2013
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Title
Accurate identification of the six human Plasmodium spp. causing imported malaria, including Plasmodium ovale wallikeri and Plasmodium knowlesi
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Malaria Journal, September 2013
DOI 10.1186/1475-2875-12-321
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Authors

Adriana Calderaro, Giovanna Piccolo, Chiara Gorrini, Sabina Rossi, Sara Montecchini, Maria Loretana Dell’Anna, Flora De Conto, Maria Cristina Medici, Carlo Chezzi, Maria Cristina Arcangeletti

Abstract

Accurate identification of Plasmodium infections in non-endemic countries is of critical importance with regard to the administration of a targeted therapy having a positive impact on patient health and management and allowing the prevention of the risk of re-introduction of endemic malaria in such countries. Malaria is no longer endemic in Italy where it is the most commonly imported disease, with one of the highest rates of imported malaria among European non-endemic countries including France, the UK and Germany, and with a prevalence of 24.3% at the University Hospital of Parma. Molecular methods showed high sensitivity and specificity and changed the epidemiology of imported malaria in several non-endemic countries, highlighted a higher prevalence of Plasmodium ovale, Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium malariae underestimated by microscopy and, not least, brought to light both the existence of two species of P. ovale (Plasmodium ovale curtisi and Plasmodium ovale wallikeri) and the infection in humans by Plasmodium knowlesi, otherwise not detectable by microscopy.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Malaysia 1 <1%
Unknown 174 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 28 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 15%
Researcher 25 14%
Student > Bachelor 18 10%
Student > Postgraduate 9 5%
Other 21 12%
Unknown 48 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 36 21%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 35 20%
Medicine and Dentistry 21 12%
Chemistry 6 3%
Immunology and Microbiology 5 3%
Other 20 11%
Unknown 52 30%
Attention Score in Context

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 18 September 2013.
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#18,347,414
of 22,721,584 outputs
Outputs from Malaria Journal
#5,023
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#146,742
of 197,514 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Malaria Journal
#61
of 72 outputs
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