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Pertussis resurgence in Toronto, Canada: a population-based study including test-incidence feedback modeling

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, September 2011
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (86th percentile)

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Title
Pertussis resurgence in Toronto, Canada: a population-based study including test-incidence feedback modeling
Published in
BMC Public Health, September 2011
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-11-694
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Authors

David N Fisman, Patrick Tang, Tanya Hauck, Susan Richardson, Steven J Drews, Donald E Low, Frances Jamieson

Abstract

Pertussis continues to challenge medical professionals; recently described increases in incidence may be due to age-cohort effects, vaccine effectiveness, or changes in testing patterns. Toronto, Canada has recently experienced increases in pertussis incidence, and provides an ideal jurisdiction for evaluating pertussis epidemiology due to centralized testing. We evaluated pertussis trends in Toronto using all available specimen data, which allowed us to control for changing testing patterns and practices.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 2 3%
Australia 2 3%
United Kingdom 1 2%
India 1 2%
Unknown 53 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 15 25%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 19%
Student > Bachelor 6 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 7%
Other 13 22%
Unknown 6 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 16 27%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 15%
Social Sciences 4 7%
Mathematics 3 5%
Computer Science 2 3%
Other 15 25%
Unknown 10 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. 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 29 January 2023.
All research outputs
#2,473,205
of 25,425,223 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#2,997
of 17,581 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,131
of 136,439 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#30
of 218 outputs
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