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Global malaria eradication and the importance of Plasmodium falciparum epidemiology in Africa

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, February 2015
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Title
Global malaria eradication and the importance of Plasmodium falciparum epidemiology in Africa
Published in
BMC Medicine, February 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12916-014-0254-7
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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.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Kenya 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 348 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
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 %
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

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.
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#1,695,920
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Outputs from BMC Medicine
#1,199
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#23,161
of 360,623 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#24
of 57 outputs
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