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| Title |
Vitamin D deficiency is associated with community-acquired clostridium difficile infection: a case–control study
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Infectious Diseases, December 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12879-014-0661-6 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Tanya Sahay, Ashwin N Ananthakrishnan |
| Abstract |
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is increasingly recognized as an important community acquired pathogen causing disease (CA-CDI). Vitamin D [25(OH)D] has immune modulatory effects and plays an important role in intestinal immunity. The role of vitamin D in CA-CDI has not been examined previously. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 6 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1 | 17% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 3 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 83% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 33 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 32 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Other | 6 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 12% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 3 | 9% |
| Student > Master | 3 | 9% |
| Other | 9 | 27% |
| Unknown | 4 | 12% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 15 | 45% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 18% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 9% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 2 | 6% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 5 | 15% |
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 12 December 2014.
All research outputs
#7,361,545
of 25,654,806 outputs
Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#2,466
of 8,668 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#93,597
of 369,574 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#49
of 196 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,654,806 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 71st percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 8,668 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% of its peers.
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