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Title |
Global malaria eradication and the importance of Plasmodium falciparum epidemiology in Africa
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Published in |
BMC Medicine, February 2015
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DOI | 10.1186/s12916-014-0254-7 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Robert W Snow |
Abstract |
The global agenda for malaria has, once again, embraced the possibility of eradication. As history has shown, there will be no single magic bullet that can be applied to every epidemiological setting. Africa has a diverse malaria ecology, lending itself to some of the highest disease burden areas of the world and a wide range of clinical epidemiological patterns making control with our current tools challenging. This commentary highlights why the epidemiology of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Africa should not be forgotten when planning an eradication strategy, and why forgetting Africa will, once again, be the single largest threat to any hope for global eradication. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 34 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 7 | 21% |
United States | 4 | 12% |
Guinea-Bissau | 1 | 3% |
Japan | 1 | 3% |
France | 1 | 3% |
Egypt | 1 | 3% |
Canada | 1 | 3% |
Nigeria | 1 | 3% |
Unknown | 17 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 25 | 74% |
Scientists | 6 | 18% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 9% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 351 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
Kenya | 1 | <1% |
Brazil | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 348 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Master | 61 | 17% |
Student > Bachelor | 53 | 15% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 38 | 11% |
Researcher | 33 | 9% |
Student > Postgraduate | 22 | 6% |
Other | 53 | 15% |
Unknown | 91 | 26% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 77 | 22% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 39 | 11% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 38 | 11% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 20 | 6% |
Immunology and Microbiology | 16 | 5% |
Other | 64 | 18% |
Unknown | 97 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 22. 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 February 2015.
All research outputs
#1,695,920
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#1,199
of 4,004 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#23,161
of 360,623 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#24
of 57 outputs
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