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Epidemiological evidence of higher susceptibility to vCJD in the young

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Infectious Diseases, August 2004
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Title
Epidemiological evidence of higher susceptibility to vCJD in the young
Published in
BMC Infectious Diseases, August 2004
DOI 10.1186/1471-2334-4-26
Pubmed ID
Authors

Pierre-Yves Boëlle, Jean-Yves Cesbron, Alain-Jacques Valleron

Abstract

The strikingly young age of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (vCJD) cases remains unexplained. Age dependent susceptibility to infection has been put forward, but differential dietary exposure to contaminated food products in the UK population according to age and sex during the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) epidemic may provide a simpler explanation.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 22 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 22 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 5 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 23%
Researcher 3 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 9%
Student > Master 2 9%
Other 2 9%
Unknown 3 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 6 27%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 27%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 9%
Mathematics 2 9%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 3 14%
Attention Score in Context

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 05 December 2013.
All research outputs
#2,929,254
of 22,733,113 outputs
Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#928
of 7,663 outputs
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#4,800
of 57,935 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#1
of 7 outputs
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