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Examining human paragonimiasis as a differential diagnosis to tuberculosis in The Gambia

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Research Notes, January 2018
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Title
Examining human paragonimiasis as a differential diagnosis to tuberculosis in The Gambia
Published in
BMC Research Notes, January 2018
DOI 10.1186/s13104-018-3134-y
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Richard Morter, Ifedayo Adetifa, Martin Antonio, Fatima Touray, Bouke C. de Jong, Charlotte M. Gower, Florian Gehre

Abstract

Paragonimiasis is a foodborne trematode infection of the lungs caused by Paragonimus spp., presenting clinically with similar symptoms to active tuberculosis (TB). Worldwide, an estimated 20.7 million people are infected with paragonimiasis, but relatively little epidemiological data exists for Africa. Given a recently reported case, we sought to establish whether paragonimiasis should be considered as an important differential diagnosis for human TB in The Gambia, West Africa. We developed a novel PCR-based diagnostic test for Paragonimus species known to be found in West Africa, which we used to examine archived TB negative sputum samples from a cross-sectional study of volunteers with tuberculosis-like symptoms from communities in the Western coastal region of The Gambia. Based on a "zero patient" design for detection of rare diseases, 300 anonymised AFB smear negative sputum samples, randomly selected from 25 villages, were screened for active paragonimiasis by molecular detection of Paragonimus spp. DNA. No parasite DNA was found in any of the sputa of our patient group. Despite the recent case report, we found no evidence of active paragonimiasis infection masking as TB in the Western region of The Gambia.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 52 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 8 15%
Student > Bachelor 8 15%
Researcher 7 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 10%
Student > Postgraduate 3 6%
Other 5 10%
Unknown 16 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 16 31%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 12%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 4%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 2 4%
Other 5 10%
Unknown 16 31%
Attention Score in Context

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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 11 November 2020.
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#7,326,424
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Outputs from BMC Research Notes
#1,180
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#160,700
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#42
of 162 outputs
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