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Onchocerciasis in the Americas: from arrival to (near) elimination

Overview of attention for article published in Parasites & Vectors, October 2011
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Title
Onchocerciasis in the Americas: from arrival to (near) elimination
Published in
Parasites & Vectors, October 2011
DOI 10.1186/1756-3305-4-205
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Authors

Ken Gustavsen, Adrian Hopkins, Mauricio Sauerbrey

Abstract

Onchocerciasis (river blindness) is a blinding parasitic disease that threatens the health of approximately 120 million people worldwide. While 99% of the population at-risk for infection from onchocerciasis live in Africa, some 500,000 people in the Americas are also threatened by infection. A relatively recent arrival to the western hemisphere, onchocerciasis was brought to the New World through the slave trade and spread through migration. The centuries since its arrival have seen advances in diagnosing, mapping and treating the disease. Once endemic to six countries in the Americas (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico and Venezuela), onchocerciasis is on track for interruption of transmission in the Americas by 2012, in line with Pan American Health Organization resolution CD48.R12. The success of this public health program is due to a robust public-private partnership involving national governments, local communities, donor organizations, intergovernmental bodies, academic institutions, non-profit organizations and the pharmaceutical industry. The lessons learned through the efforts in the Americas are in turn informing the program to control and eliminate onchocerciasis in Africa. However, continued support and investment are needed for program implementation and post-treatment surveillance to protect the gains to-date and ensure complete elimination is achieved and treatment can be safely stopped within all 13 regional foci.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 2%
Mexico 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 110 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 18%
Student > Master 16 14%
Student > Bachelor 14 12%
Researcher 12 11%
Other 7 6%
Other 22 19%
Unknown 23 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 24 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 24 21%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 10%
Social Sciences 10 9%
Immunology and Microbiology 5 4%
Other 17 15%
Unknown 23 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. 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 24 November 2022.
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#1,692,527
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Outputs from Parasites & Vectors
#268
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#8,503
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Outputs of similar age from Parasites & Vectors
#5
of 29 outputs
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