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| Title |
Time-to-infection by Plasmodium falciparum is largely determined by random factors
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, January 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12916-014-0252-9 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Mykola Pinkevych, Kiprotich Chelimo, John Vulule, James W Kazura, Ann M Moormann, Miles P Davenport |
| Abstract |
The identification of protective immune responses to P. falciparum infection is an important goal for the development of a vaccine for malaria. This requires the identification of susceptible and resistant individuals, so that their immune responses may be studied. Time-to-infection studies are one method for identifying putative susceptible individuals (infected early) versus resistant individuals (infected late). However, the timing of infection is dependent on random factors, such as whether the subject was bitten by an infected mosquito, as well as individual factors, such as their level of immunity. It is important to understand how much of the observed variation in infection is simply due to chance. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 16 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4 | 25% |
| Spain | 3 | 19% |
| Singapore | 1 | 6% |
| United States | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 7 | 44% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 10 | 63% |
| Scientists | 4 | 25% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 35 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |
| Spain | 1 | 3% |
| Mali | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 32 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 11 | 31% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 3 | 9% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 2 | 6% |
| Other | 3 | 9% |
| Unknown | 7 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 7 | 20% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 6 | 17% |
| Engineering | 4 | 11% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 2 | 6% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 6 | 17% |
| Unknown | 9 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 10 June 2015.
All research outputs
#3,271,154
of 22,780,967 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#1,862
of 3,419 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#49,968
of 353,036 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#37
of 58 outputs
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