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The outcome of Cryptococcus neoformansintracellular pathogenesis in human monocytes

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Microbiology, March 2009
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Title
The outcome of Cryptococcus neoformansintracellular pathogenesis in human monocytes
Published in
BMC Microbiology, March 2009
DOI 10.1186/1471-2180-9-51
Pubmed ID
Authors

Mauricio Alvarez, Tamika Burn, Yong Luo, Liise-anne Pirofski, Arturo Casadevall

Abstract

Cryptococcus neoformans is an encapsulated yeast that is a facultative intracellular pathogen. The interaction between macrophages and C. neoformans is critical for extrapulmonary dissemination of this pathogenic yeast. C. neoformans can either lyse macrophages or escape from within them through a process known as phagosomal extrusion. However, most studies of intracellular pathogenesis have been made with mouse cells and their relevance to human infection is uncertain. In this study we extended studies of C. neoformans-macrophage cellular interaction/s to human peripheral blood monocytes.

Mendeley readers

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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 61 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 2 3%
United States 1 2%
Unknown 58 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 13 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 16%
Student > Master 10 16%
Student > Bachelor 9 15%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 5%
Other 9 15%
Unknown 7 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 18 30%
Immunology and Microbiology 11 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 10 16%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 13%
Unspecified 4 7%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 9 15%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 26 October 2020.
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#7,208,269
of 22,783,848 outputs
Outputs from BMC Microbiology
#823
of 3,186 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#32,163
of 93,209 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Microbiology
#7
of 12 outputs
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