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| Title |
Parasite clearance after malaria therapy: staying a step ahead of drug resistance
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, October 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12916-015-0486-1 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Harin A. Karunajeewa |
| Abstract |
The discovery and development of the artemisinin class of antimalarial drugs is one of the great recent success stories of global health. However, after at least two decades of successful use, resistance has finally emerged and appears to be spreading rapidly throughout South-East Asia in spite of our best efforts at containment. If this were also to occur in Africa, it would have disastrous implications for the continent subject to the world's greatest burden of Plasmodium falciparum. The earliest indications of incipient artemisinin resistance may be a slowing of the rate at which parasites are cleared from the blood following treatment. The Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network have analysed data from 29,493 patients from 84 clinical trials in order to define the nature and determinants of early parasite clearance following artemisinin-based treatment in African populations. In doing so, they lay the foundation for systems intended to enable the earliest possible detection of emerging artemisinin resistance in Africa.Please see related article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/13/212. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 8 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 | 2 | 25% |
| Canada | 1 | 13% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 4 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 88% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 47 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| Vietnam | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 45 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 11 | 23% |
| Student > Master | 10 | 21% |
| Lecturer | 3 | 6% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 6% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 6 | 13% |
| Unknown | 11 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 13 | 28% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 15% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 15% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 2 | 4% |
| Engineering | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 5 | 11% |
| Unknown | 11 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 October 2015.
All research outputs
#8,010,574
of 24,088,270 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#2,764
of 3,672 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#95,582
of 279,740 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#77
of 88 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 3,672 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 45.3. This one is in the 22nd percentile – i.e., 22% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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