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The duration of Plasmodium falciparum infections

Overview of attention for article published in Malaria Journal, December 2014
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Title
The duration of Plasmodium falciparum infections
Published in
Malaria Journal, December 2014
DOI 10.1186/1475-2875-13-500
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Authors

Elizabeth A Ashley, Nicholas J White

Abstract

Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium ovale are often considered the malaria parasites best adapted to long-term survival in the human host because of their latent exo-erythrocytic forms. The prevailing opinion until the middle of the last century was that the maximum duration of Plasmodium falciparum infections was less than two years. Case reports and series investigating blood donors following accidental malaria infection of blood transfusion recipients and other sporadic malaria cases in non-endemic countries have shown clearly that asymptomatic P. falciparum infections may persist for up to a decade or longer (maximum recorded 13 years). Current policies in malaria-free countries of excluding blood donors who have lived in malarious areas are justified. Vigilance for longer than three years after declaring elimination in an area may be needed.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
Mexico 2 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Tanzania, United Republic of 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 316 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 49 15%
Student > Bachelor 49 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 45 14%
Researcher 44 13%
Student > Postgraduate 19 6%
Other 48 15%
Unknown 73 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 72 22%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 46 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 38 12%
Immunology and Microbiology 17 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 16 5%
Other 49 15%
Unknown 89 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 August 2019.
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#2,925,902
of 23,505,064 outputs
Outputs from Malaria Journal
#671
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Outputs of similar age
#41,720
of 357,844 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Malaria Journal
#14
of 116 outputs
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